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  Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learning
Ivan Illich's lasting contribution was a dissection of these institutions and a demonstration of their corruption.
Ivan Illich and the Centre for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC)
Ivan Illich's critique of development and his 'call for the creation of a radically new relationship between human beings and their environment' has not played a significant part in the mainstream of policy and practice (Finger and Asún 2001: 14).
www.infed.org /thinkers/et-illic.htm   (4618 words)

  
 Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna in 1926.
Ivan Illich became increasingly frustrated with the bureaucracy of the church and left the priesthood in 1969.
Ivan Illich died on December 2, 2002, in the northern German city of Bremen where he had lectured in sociology for the past decade.
www.nl.edu /academics/cas/ace/resources/Illich.cfm   (295 words)

  
  MIND-ING ECOLOGY - IVAN ILLICH HAS DIED
Ivan Illich was one of the most radical thinkers of the late 20th century.
Illich dreamt of a society of freedom, equality and fraternity, but he was not a realistic planner towards these goals, and he gradually retreated into thought rather than action — though a close circle of friends did take on his mantle.
Ivan Illich, anti-institutional writer, was born on September 24, 1926.
www.oikos.org /ecology/illichob.htm   (3418 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich (Vienna, September 4,1926 - Bremen, December 2,2002), polymath, polemicist.
From the 1980s, Ivan Illich traveled extensively, mainly splitting his time between the United States, Mexico, and Germany.
As a holistic thinker, with a formidable intellect and a truly catholic breadth of erudition, Illich always considers his insights in the widest possible terms.
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Ivan_Illich   (866 words)

  
 Resurgence issue 221 - IVAN ILLICH by Harry Eyres
THE DEATH LAST December of Ivan Illich, the most radical critic of late-industrial institutions and the most unsettling prophet of the age of ecology, was greeted with an embarrassed stutter of tributes.
The catastrophe, for Illich, is already with us, not just in the destruction of nature but in the cultural devastation of impoverished language and the forgetting and atrophying of innate human capacities of caring, consoling, entertaining and creating.
Illich would agree: conviviality is not a programme but a principle designed to sanction legal limits to the size and structure of institutions, countering what he called radical monopoly.
www.resurgence.org /resurgence/issues/eyres221.htm   (1177 words)

  
 An Invitation to Ivan Illich (Articles) Marilyn Snell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Illich, who speaks 11 languages and has studied a vast range of subjects for his dozen books and many essays, is as intent on avoiding the physical constraints of institutions as he is on keeping his distance from much of the research pursued there.
Illich remembers when he bought those shoes, in 1973, the day Chilean president Salvador Allende was killed: “When I heard the news of Allende’s death, I remembered that the last time I had seen him we had had an argument.
Illich’s work with Puerto Ricans in Spanish Harlem between 1951 and 1956 led him to criticize the American church, which he said was imposing its values on minority groups.
www.utne.com /web_special/web_specials_archives/articles/10173-1.html   (2212 words)

  
 Ivan Illich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A scholar and author, Illich held degrees in theology, history, and chemistry, and was a professor at various colleges.
Illich is probably most widely known for his book Deschooling Society, in which he argues that compulsory education is more successful at perpetuating systems of inequality than it is at inspiring scholarship or creating democratic citizens.
Illich made radical critiques of the institutionalization of religion and science, and of society's worship of technology and development.
www.spinninglobe.net /illich.htm   (396 words)

  
 Ivan Illich | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Ivan Illich, who has died of cancer aged 76, was one of the world's great thinkers, a polymath whose output covered vast terrains.
Illich was born in Vienna into a family with Jewish, Dalmatian and Catholic roots.
Illich lived frugally, but opened his doors to collaborators and drop-ins with great generosity, running a practically non-stop educational process which was always celebratory, open-ended and egalitarian at his final bases in Bremen, Cuernavaca and Pennsylvania.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,856395,00.html   (930 words)

  
 Ivan Illich with Jerry Brown
Illich: During the later 60s I had a chance in a year and a half to give a dozen different addresses to people who were concerned with education and schooling at which I had looked as a historian.
Illich: You're looking at what lies ahead, where we are not yet, which of course makes us with terrible feeling like when you are with somebody and he always wants to know where we will be next week, where we will be the next hour, instead of being right here.
Illich: Which is the inactivity which results from a man seeing how enormously difficult it is for a man to do the right thing.
www.wtp.org /archive/transcripts/ivan_illich_jerry.html   (4825 words)

  
 Ivan Illich - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Ivan Illich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Illich, Ivan (1926–2002), radical philosopher and activist, born in Austria.
Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York...
ca.encarta.msn.com /Ivan_Illich.html   (124 words)

  
 Preservation Institute: Beyond Progressive and Conservative
Ivan Illich became well known in 1970, when he published Deschooling Society which argued that the top-down management of schools makes students powerless - and that the same top-down management is typical of the modern, technological economy that prevents people from learning.
The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr: In this article, Ivan Illich discusses one of the first economists to question modernization and growth by emphasizing the importance of small scale.
Taught Mother Tongue and Nation State: A recording of Ivan Illich speaking about the invention of standard Spanish, the first language that people were taught to speak.
www.preservenet.com /theory/Illich.html   (585 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Deschooling Society: Books: Ivan Illich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Illich was for living convivially and simply in the "vernacular." That is with friends, community and the actual world that surrounds you and with the natural abilities with which you are endowed.
Illich maintains that the deschooling of society is merely part of a larger quest for the reestablishment of society's control over their community and environment.
Illich links schooling and modern ideas of education to the belief in endless progress and the ultimate abolition of "Necessity." What starts out as a program in humanism ends up as a formula for the destruction of what it is to be human.
www.amazon.ca /Deschooling-Society-Ivan-Illich/dp/0714508799   (1149 words)

  
 Ivan Illich - Information from Reference.com
Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviality and the possibilities for...
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna in 1926.
Ivan Illich was, first and foremost, trained to be a priest.
www.reference.com /search?db=web&q=Ivan%20Illich   (243 words)

  
 Ivan Illich
Full of detail on then current programmes and concerns, the book can seem dated, but its core assertions and propositions remain as radical today as they were at the time.
It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools.
As a holistic thinker, with a formidable intellect and a truly catholic breadth of erudition, Illich always considers his insights in the widest possible terms.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/iv/Ivan_Illich.html   (601 words)

  
 Ivan Illich Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ivan Illich was born on September 4, 1926, to Ivan Peter and Ellen Illich in Vienna, Austria.
Illich viewed the center as a place for free, committed, and disciplined intellectual inquiry, yet many participants viewed it as an unstructured forum for political expression.
In this volume, the Thomistic Illich argued that the groundwork for modern social institutions was actually laid in the 12th century.
www.bookrags.com /biography/ivan-illich   (1320 words)

  
 Interview with Ivan Illich
It is Cayley's depth of understanding of Illich both as a great thinker of the twentieth century and as a human being that enabled Cayley to translate the contents of an extremely complex mind into laymen's terms.
Illich is a teacher in the most classical sense of the word: he loves his subject and his students with equal fervor.
ILLICH: It is through Aries that I was introduced to the historicity of the notion of "the child," and that in this sense it is a modern construct.
www.spinninglobe.net /illichinterview.htm   (5060 words)

  
 Ivan Illich
In the wellness movement, the concept of medicalization is attributed to Ivan Illich who was, also, one of the first to advocate patient empowerment.
Illich was a multilingual prolific writer who focused on the major institutions of the industrialized world.
Illich advocates that "individual freedom [is] realized in personal independence."[5] He laments industrialized societies where ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are used to measure the quality of human life.
naturalhealthperspective.com /tutorials/ivan-illich.html   (756 words)

  
 Whole Earth: Remembering Ivan Illich
Illich wrote less in his later years, partly because of a debilitating facial tumor for which—true to his beliefs—he never sought treatment, but also because his work became an ongoing conversation (a "conspiracy," in the sense of "breathing together") with friends around the world.
Ivan Illich was the rarest of human beings: erudite, yet possessed of aliveness and sensitivity.
Illich identified the "ethos of non-satiety" as "at the root of physical depredation, social polarization, and psychological passivity." Instead of welfare economics and environmental management, Illich emphasized friendship and self-limitation.
www.wholeearthmag.com /ArticleBin/111-7.html   (6782 words)

  
 Ivan Illich - PS776 Class Project
Illich uses Marxist concepts to assert that radical monopolies are created when the monopoly of a single (industrial/capitalist) mode of production is formed, which influences all social relations and overwhelms any other mode of production.
Illich claims that one fourth of an average American man’s waking hours (1600 hours/year) are spent in the car or paying for it (1974, p.
Illich points out that a single generation will have to bear the brunt of the huge crisis that will allow the move away from the industrial mode of production.
www.uky.edu /Classes/PS/776/Projects/Illich/illich.htm   (1881 words)

  
 The Ivan Illich Archive
Ivan Illich can be considered one of the most radical political and social thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century.
His aim is to analyze the institutional structures of industrialized society and to provide both rigorous criticism and a set of alternative concepts.
Bibliography: We try to maintain a list of publications related to Ivan Illich and provide hyperlinks where possible.
www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk /~ira/illich   (129 words)

  
 Instead of a Blog - The Death of Ivan Illich, by Wirkman Virkkala
Ivan I. thought that means could and should perfectly match a few (and only a few!) carefully chosen ends.
I wonder not what Ivan Illich would say to this (or my other) rant against his thought, but what (the fictional) Ivan Ilyich might have said.
I'm sure Ivan I. had a theory about this, but I'm not going to read his terrible prose or endure his utopian pose to find out what it is. Besides, when confronted with someone as wrong-headed as Illich, I become sympathetic with Everyman, not with the radicalism.
www.insteadofablog.com /2002.12.12.shtml   (804 words)

  
 Ivan Illich - Toward a History of Needs
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna in 1926.
Illich was co-founder of the widely known and controversial Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and since 1964 he has directed research seminars on `Institutional Alternatives in a Technological Society', with special focus on Latin America.
Ivan Illich's writings have appeared in The New York Review, The Saturday Review, Esprit, Kursbuch, Siempre, America, Commonweal, Epreuves, Temps Modernes, Le Monde, and The Guardian.
evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /Illich01.htm   (897 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection: Books: Lee Hoinacki,Carl Mitcham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If you're unfamiliar with Ivan Illich and his penetrating critique of the modern, industrialized, commodified, Western way of life, this is not the book for you.
Illich the visionary anarchist champions autonomy, communities of people working and caring for each other rather than depending on anonymous professionals, nurturing deep friendships, and living free of artificially imposed hierarchies.
Though Illich has largely been dismissed in the U.S. since the early 1970s (when Deschooling Society actually got him 15 minutes on the Dick Cavett show), I understand that in Europe and in "developing" nations, he is widely regarded as one of the more incisive social critics.
www.amazon.com /Challenges-Ivan-Illich-Collective-Reflection/dp/0791454223   (1647 words)

  
 Ivan Illich
What makes Illich interesting at this point in history, when the end of the cold war no longer forces us to align ourselves with crudely defined blocks (LeftWing, RightWing), is that neither side (and his writing was mainly done when there seemed to be sides) liked what he had to say.
Illich sees much of the horror of the modern western world, with its deep poverty and dependence on all those institutions he railed against for all those decades, as essentially a corruption of some quite radical ideas that Jesus put forth.
Illich is particularly concerned with the parable of the Good Samaritan, whose lesson, he argues, got co-opted and misused by the Church long ago and which in turn gave rise to today's service institutions.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?IvanIllich   (977 words)

  
 Psyberspace: Whole Earth: Remembering Ivan Illich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is a wonderful page of tributes to Illich who died in Bremen, Germany on December 2, 2002.
Among the serious thinkers I have had the privilege to meet, Ivan Illich alone embodied in his personal life as well as in his work, a radical distancing from the imperatives of modern society.
Ivan Illich was the rarest of human beings: erudite, yet possessed of aliveness and sensitivity.
www.psybernet.co.nz /weblog/2004/10/whole-earth-remembering-ivan-illich.html   (393 words)

  
 L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora: Ivan Illich
«Illich est tout d'abord un penseur qui se situe dans un contexte historique particulier, celui des années 60 — période caractérisée par une critique radicale de l'ordre capitaliste et de ses institutions sociales, et notamment de l'école.
On disait à l'époque qu'Ivan Illich était un homme intelligent qui aimait à s'entourer de gens intelligents et qu'il lui était difficile de dissimuler son mépris à l'égard des personnes qu'il trouvait stupides.
Extrait: «Ivan Illich mobilise une impressionnante bibliographie, en plusieurs langues, n’hésite pas à saisir un problème dans sa très longue durée, à revisiter les mythes, à questionner les religions, à télescoper les différents savoirs disciplinaires, à s’impliquer dans la remise en cause de fausses « évidences », à polémiquer...
www.agora.qc.ca /mot.nsf/Dossiers/Ivan_Illich   (1820 words)

  
 A Turbulent Priest in the Global Village by Richard Wall
"Ivan Illich was well ahead of his time in identifying and classifying the health hazards of the ‘medicalisation of society.’ …He used medicine as an example of his general thesis that industrialisation and bureaucracy were appropriating areas of life previously regarded as personal.
Illich fundamentally mistrusted the goals of infinite progress and economic development as implemented by aid agencies and the like, and especially ideas such as ‘sustainable development,’ which he felt was just one more mechanism of artificial control, leading mainly to a mushrooming of self-perpetuating international bureaucratic organizations.
Ivan Illich, a man who belonged to many nations and yet to no particular nation, was a turbulent priest in the global village.
www.lewrockwell.com /wall/wall28.html   (7403 words)

  
 Convivial Name Origins
Ivan Illich [1926-2002] - educator, sociologist, former priest, and philosopher, died Monday, December 2, 2002, at the age of 76.
IIvan Illich was born in Vienna in 1926.
Ivan Illich is both a pilgrim and an intellectual pioneer.
www.convivial.com /pages/illich.html   (1221 words)

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