For an updated (May 27/24) summary of Ernest Becker's work (especially on child-raising and education) go to a new film "All Illusions Must Be Broken" and to remember that Becker's work on terror and evil are hand-in-hand. This is not some small critical thinker in the 20th century.
Just this morning I wrote out a new theory (basics) that is a spin-off from Becker-Wilber (and others) whom have plumbed the depths of our animal-human-spiritual nature as a species. My new theory is especially relevant to education today and in the future:
Pedagogical Terroir Theory: one of my newest theories based on the understanding of terrior as used to describe the aesthetic-essence-characteristics (analogous to ‘personality’ or ‘character’) of a food substance produced; each child, and cohorts of children, in my theory are importantly soaked and marinated, consciously and unconsciously, in environments (within and outside of the cellular integrity of the organism) or contexts and meta-context—and this ought to be included in any educational (curricular-pedagogical-socialization) processes; in particular, the connection of “terror” to “terroir” is not without its meaningfulness—in that my use of pedagogical terroir is one already marinated in environments of terror(ism) and underneath that fear(ism)—toxic formations thereof (see Knowledge Theory)
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