Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Would liberating education be successful if it did not incorporate some sort of transferal information or does the development of education cognition that most effective method?
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by edu-cators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.
Is this the same thing that socialization attempts to accomplish through socialization in the educational system?
78-PAULO FREIRE When their efforts to act responsibly are frustrated, when they find themselves unable to use their faculties, people suffer. "This suffering due to impotence is rooted in the very fact that the human equilibrium has been disturbe
This can be compared to how students may feel when a certain grade for a class or assignment is given to them. It makes students believe that the grade defines who they are as a person or the level of intelligence they have. Grades are a form of oppression because it categorizes a student without holistically understanding the educational system and pedagogy that sets them up to fail.
74-PAULO FREIRE the critical faculties and is not content with a partial view of reality but always seeks out the ties which link one point to another and one problem to another. Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in "changing the con-sciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them";1 for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.
This passage ties back to the idea that education and knowledge is controlled in how it is presented and the extent the quality of a learning environment will be provided. Freire compares that relationship to oppression, teachers being the oppressors, and how the oppressed do little to question it. Giroux's reading emphasizes the need to "transform knowledge rather than consume" (pg 7), thus challenging the pedagogy on education.
banking education to minimize or annul the students creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world re-vealed nor to see it transformed.
This reminds me a lot of Shor's reading and how he points out how education is more focused on socialization rather then the content given for students to learn. The system is already set up to provide a set of information rather then interactive and critically learning, which suppresses the student form free-thinking.
ocial change
Social change can occur when there is a sudden change in the efficiency of production or the modes of production that either become unstable in terms of how it affects classes of people, thus resulting in social change at the macro level.
lassconsciousness
Class consciousness points to the awareness one has of their class and position. This awareness is important because the more people that obtain class consciousness, the more power they'll realize they have in the functioning of a capitalist society.
Institutions
Family and education are the two primary institutions that contribute to the process of production. Each play a role in the development of a person's social relationships and knowledge used to initiate production.
surplu
Surplus is the additional value of goods that remain after productions pays itself back for how much it cost to produce the materials.
divisionoflabour
Division of labor refers to the distribution of work in a strategic way that aims to maximize production and efficiency.
'historical materialism
What differentiates us humans is our method of survival, which encompasses transforming materials from the environment in order to use them to our advantage and make living conditions easier. Historically, rather than adapting to the environment, we materialize it, and utilize social relationships for it.
relationships between real people that are necessary to create the com- modities on which capitalism relies.
I think the underlying point Marx tries to make here is that there are reciprocal social relationships between people in institutions that are necessary for the production of consumable goods. This relationship incorporates everyone and is what drives a capitalist society.
Synthesize texts (across the course and readings for a particular CRR) in relation to each other.5.Include your own thoughtful analysis, interpretations (supported by evidence
Can we refer to readings from previous weeks or only keep the context in these response from that specific week?
During week seven, on 7/31, your modules will go live. You and your classmates will complete each other’smodules (two of a different focus) (between 8/1 –8/4) and will provide a “module evaluation”(due by 8/4) that gives the team(s) feedback regarding how to improve the module.(Evaluation rubrics will be provided.)4.As a team, and for your final,you will be asked to revise your modules per the feedback you receive from your classmates(Due by 8/11).
How will the this assignment be graded? Based on the feedback we receive from other students or on how well we developed our module as group?