ABSTRACT
The advice of the ancient Chinese sage Mo Tsu on avoiding the fallacies of fatalism are echoed in the remarks above by Raymond Williams and others on emancipatory politics and education. Mo Tsu’s suggestion that we carefully examine the words of the fatalists offers one way of illuminating ‘the large terrain of contradictions’ spoken of by Ira Shor. If the potentialities for more holistic forms of literacy on global futures are to be developed in schools, it is important to explore not only how aspects of cultural violence mediate restricted meanings of reality and potential reality but how, in site-specific contexts, resistances may emerge.
