SESSION THREE:
Revolutionary Philosophies and Education

AGENDA:

  • Review and Critique of Pragmatism and Existentialism
  • Philosophy Profiles for next week!
  • The Socratic seminar: a model
    • School for work vs. school for life
    • A-G requirement or more flexible
  • "The Big Picture"
  • Feminism
    • Video: "Slim Hopes" by Jean Kilbourne
    • Socratic seminar
  • DINNER
  • Revolutionary Philosophies
    • Marxism, Critical Race Theory
      • Lecture
      • Socratic
    • Liberation Pedagogy
      • "Naqoyqatsi" view
      • Possible alternative schools?
        • Student suggestions (funding, curriculum, schedules, goals)
        • Freire, Illich ideas
  • Critique of Revolutionary Philosophies
  • Socratic seminar
    • What do you think of these "revolutionary philosophies"?

HOMEWORK:

  • read Gutek chapters 8, 13, and 14;
  • Philosophy matrices due next week!
    • Your proflies should contain the following (5 total!):
      • Idealism
      • Realism
      • Pragmatism or Existentialism
      • Two of the "revolutionary philosophies."

COURSE NOTES AND HANDOUTS:

Critique of Pragmatism and Existentialism presentation
In class presentation on "Revolutionary Philosophies"

Philosophy Profiles - Template for the profile grids due in Session Eight.
Philosophy Profile Rubric - Rubric for the philosophy profile grids due in Session Eight.

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:

Feminism and Betty Friedan and bell hooks
Karl Marx and Marxism
Postmodernism and Michel Foucault
Critical Race Theory and Jonathan Kozol
Critical Pedagogy: Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Henry Giroux
History of U.S. Education - Notes from a lecture: overview of American education.
Windwolf - A Native American father's plea to the school system.
The Quatsi Trilogy: Godfrey Reggio

LINKS OF INTEREST:

Jean Kilbourne
Radical Teacher
Rethinking Schools
UCLA Teacher X Program: Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux