GAI’s newest author, researcher Priscilla West, appeared on a Chicago radio show to discuss her new book, “The New Face of Woke Education.”
West’s new book for GAI is a deep dive into Social Emotional Learning (SEL), which is educational material sold to parents and K-12 teachers as harmless programming intended to teach children “emotional intelligence.”
SEL is far more encompassing than a mere lesson plan or an educational philosophy, she found. “It’s essentially an operating system” for education, as she tells host Dan Proft.
“I come from an engineering background and when I when I started to work for Peter Schweizer, I thought that I would be approaching this subject from an engineering standpoint,” West says. “As I began digging through mountains of education literature and research, school board meeting minutes, annual reports from [education technology] edtech firms, the picture that started to develop for me was pretty shocking,” she says. SEL actually “was a lot of psychology. Much of the energy in education today is focused on very subjective measures, things that are just wide open to misinterpretation.”
With its use of cloud computing, SEL became a centralized apparatus for the transmission of values that weaken future generations. Through SEL, collectivist propaganda now pervades modern classrooms, shaping your child’s worldview, click by click, according to the book. SEL has become a dangerous subversion of the educational system and aims to surveil, indoctrinate and, ultimately, force compliance with a globalist agenda.
As an example, Proft asks whether social-emotional learning was the Trojan Horse used by the educational establishment to bring Critical Race Theory into the classroom.
West agrees. “They may say that they’re not teaching critical race theory and they may technically be correct, but nonetheless, they are installing a worldview. Critical Race Theory, this awareness of identity groups and this worldview of power and oppression is is just baked in,” she says.
The New Face of Woke Education exposes a multi-billion dollar business for the companies and consultants who sell it and operate the data gathering systems that it relies upon. “SEL was baked into Common Core,” she notes.
Watch the full interview below: