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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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