TheTheMonarchMonarchInstituteInstitute

Founded In 2004 By:Martin Aller-Stead, Peter Koutakos,Karen Thompson And Terry Wister,Of The Monarch Park Collegiate StaffPatron: The Principal

(Ms June Gooding)

The Monarch Institute is open to the whole community

We anticipate The Monarch Institute will continue yearly, examining topics of note to the educated

mind and of interest in our community

The Monarch Institute

AnInvitation

ToParticipate

In The2004 Founding

ForumMarch 10th., 2004

Who OwnsWhat We Learn?

ThePrivatization

OfKnowledge :

Over the past few decades a trend has emerged of knowledge, information and technique being removed from the public sphere to behind the walls of patent law, or kept unpublished and private. Much research undertaken now is paid for by private enterprise, and from the results decisions are made which affect the quality of life of our nation(s).

Since knowledge is doubling each year or so (depending on the field chosen), and much new knowledge is retained in private hands, what is the impact on us, in a public school, fulfilling the basic educational endeavour of western society? What do we lack, and how can we find out?

How do we prepare ourselves and our students for full participation in our knowledge-driven world?

What

Does

“Democracy”

Mean

Under

These

Changing

Conditions?

This is a call for abstracts to be submitted to Aller-Stead by Noon on January 9, 2004. An abstract outline is available on the TEL MPC StaffShare. Abstracts will be published prior to the Institute, and available on-line.

Submit abstracts to monarchmatters @ hotmail.com.

Readers of this slideshow who are not members of the MPC staff are invited to take part in this forum through e-submissions, or by attendance at the Institute’s Forum.

These abstracts will be expanded upon in a public Forum, open to all staff,

community members and students, at noon on

Wednesday March 10th., 2004, in the Large Group Room at Monarch Park

Collegiate.

The topic this year is:

The Privatization Of Knowledge

:::

Who Owns What We Learn ?

Ms K Thompson and Messrs P Koutakos and T Wister of the Monarch Park teaching staff have committed to present papers.

The Institute and Forum moderator is M Aller-Stead.

This is an open invitation for more papers.

Karen Thompson: Ownership and appropriation of symbols in art. Who’s image IS that?

 

Terry Wister: Plato and knowledge; it is all ours, and indivisible. You cannot ‘own’ knowing.

 

Peter Koutakos: Knowledge as the driver of social change, and the implications of control of knowing. (Private knowledge vs. public discourse)

 

Gavin Barrett: The appropriation of language for corporate benefit. Hindering public discussion through ownership of language

Our Proposed Participants and their areas of interest:

Submissions Are Invited From All Areas Of Our Community, Without The Onus Of Forum Participation.

Anyone wishing to submit a paper to be published in the Proceedings, please send it in ready-to-print electronic form to “The Monarch Institute” at:

monarchcoop@hotmail.com

Community Participation Is Invited By The Institute, In The Form Of Submissions

Or Attendance.

The Monarch InstituteFor further information, or to arrange

to participate, please contact

M Aller-Stead

Monarch Park Collegiate

(416) 393-0190 x 4

monarchcoop@hotmail.com

The Monarch Institute

Monarch Park Collegiate

1, Hanson Street

Toronto Ontario

M4J 1G6