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Cultural Politics and Educational Reform
SOC249 FA

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 to asses s 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.

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

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Wong,Sandra Leslie   
Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM;     Location: PAC125
Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 30)
SR. major: 17   Jr. major: 13
SR. non-major:    Jr. non-major:    SO:    FR:

Special Attributes:

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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