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Ivan Dominic Illich was born on 4 September 1926 in Vienna, Austria, to Gian Pietro Ilic (Ivan Peter Illich) and Ellen Rose "Maexie" née Regenstreif-Ortlieb. [4] His father was a civil engineer and a diplomat from a landed Catholic family of Dalmatia, with property in the city of Split and wine and olive oil estates on the island of Brač.
Deschooling is credited to Ivan Illich, who felt that the traditional schooling children received needed to be reconstructed. [10] Illich believed that schools contain a "hidden curriculum" that causes learning to align with grades and accreditation rather than with important skills. [11]
According to a review in the Libertarian Forum, "Illich's advocacy of the free market in education is the bone in the throat that is choking the public educators." [12] Yet, unlike libertarians, Illich opposes not merely publicly funded schooling, but schools as such. Thus, Illich's envisioned disestablishment of schools aimed not to establish ...
The Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) was founded by Ivan Illich in 1965 as a higher education campus for development workers and missionaries. It was located in Cuernavaca ( Mexico ), at the Rancho Tetela.
The success of Illich attracted the attention of the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Spellman, eventually resulting in Illich's naming as vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico in 1956. [3] The current pastor is Reverend Edward Russell.
Limits to Medicine, also known as Medical Nemesis, is a book by Ivan Illich, first published in 1975.Without defining what medicalisation is, Illich claimed that medicine had increasingly gained social control over people's lives, leading to iatrogenic effects, with physicians as the key players in the process.
Ivan Illich (1926–2002), the historian and social critic, can be read as an apophatic theologian, according to a longtime collaborator, Lee Hoinacki, in a paper presented in memory of Illich, called "Why Philia?" [107]
Everett W. Reimer (1910–1998 [1]) was an education theorist who authored several books on educational policy and was a proponent of deschooling.He was a notable friend of Ivan Illich, whom he met at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico.