1. Welcome and What is Education?
Quotes:
"Learning will spoil the best nigger."
--- Frederick Douglas
"When someone with the authority of a teacher, say,
describes the world and you are not it,
there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium,
as if you looked in a mirror and saw nothing."
-- Adrienne Rich, "Invisibility and Academe"
1.1 Is there a text in this class?: Education as Discipline, as Liberation and as Healing.
1.2 Who is Reading Who?: Reading Our Textbooks
1.3 What is TV or Who Owns Language? The Critical Invitation
Concepts and Areas of Interest:
critical approach (Campbell vs. Downing)
cynicism vs. critical
critical pedagogy
critical media studies
double consciousness
consumer society
hegemony
ideology
empiricist
Required Readings:
1. Downing, Preface: A Letter from the Editors to the Beginning Student, pp. xv- xxix.
2. Campbell, "Media Research, Ivory Towers and Democracy," pp. 430-437.
Recommended Readings:
1. Downing: Glossary: pp. 478-494.
2. Campbell: Glossary: pp. 479-488.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
Friere, P., "Chapter 3", from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Seabury Press, 1968.
hooks, bell, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, NewYork: Routledge, 1994.
Gilroy, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and the Double Consciousness.
Aronowtiz, S. and Giroux, H., Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Fish, Stanley, Is there a text in this class? : The authority of interpretive communities, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.
GROUPS FORM
TTP-21