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SOC 249

Cultural Politics and Educational Reform
SOC 249 SP

Crosslistings: CHUM249
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Next Offered in 9798 SP

This course will examine public schools as critical sites of cultural reproduction and identity formation. We 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 to assess how schooling experiences influence student identitites 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: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS SOC

Prerequisites: SOC 151

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997



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Reference:

Robertson, Ian. SOCIOLOGY, 3rd ed., New York: Worth Publishers, Inc., 1987



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