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Academic Year 2002/2003
Cultural Politics and Educational Reform
SOC 249 SP
This course will examine public schools as critical sites of cultural reproduction and identity formation. It will focus on how particular meanings and experiences are legitimated through or excluded from educational
knowledge
and practices and how competing political interests and conceptions of democratic education have shaped past and current struggles over pedagogical strategies and curricular content. We will also discuss how students
interpret
and respond to what they are taught and assess how schooling experiences influence student identities and perspectives.
MAJOR READINGS
M. Apple, IDEOLOGY AND CURRICULUM S. Aronowitz and H. Giroux, EDUCATION UNDER SIEGE P. Bourdieu, REPRODUCTION IN EDUCATION, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE J. Dewey, THE CHILD AND THE CURRICULUM E.D. Hirsch, CULTURAL
LITERACY E. Minnich, TRANSFORMING
KNOWLEDGE L. Weis and M. Fine, BEYOND SILENCED VOICES A. Schlesinger, THE DISUNITING OF AMERICA and selected articles.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three short papers and a final research paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
SOC and CHUM majors will be given admission preference. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the
class list. NOTE: Students must
still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
SOC151
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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