SCHOOLING VERSUS EDUCATION
(THE WORKING CLASS AND EDUCATION):
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS CLASS – MARX STANDING HOOKS STEMBRIDGE
Recommended Reading:
Karl Marx, “Communist Manifesto,” pp. 30-39; 2ndary: “Wage Labor and Capital,” pp. 203-211.
bell hooks, “Confronting Class in the Classroom,” from Teaching to Transgress, pp. 177-179.
Joan Stembridge, “Notes About a Class,” from Stokely Speaks, pp. 3-8.
Ian Standing, The Precariat, pp. 4-29.
WHAT IS EDUCATION – PLATO
Recommended Reading:
Plato, The Republic, pp. 250-263 (divided line and cave).
June 6: Plato, The Republic, pp. 263-291 (education of the guardians).
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION – DEWEY
Recommended Reading:
John Dewey, Experience and Education, pp. 33-50, 61-91.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, 1-14, (24-29) (control of the environment).
HISTORY OF SCHOOLING AND DISCIPLINES – JOHNSON AND WALLERSTEIN
Recommended Reading:
Robb Johnson, “Remote Control,” from The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child Versus the State, pp. 9-16. (Hist/mass education—1870).
Immanuel Wallerstein, Introduction to World-Systems Analysis, pp. 1-11 (primary) -22 (secondary).
NEOLIBERALISM AND SCHOOLING – GIROUX AND BERRY
Recommended Reading:
Henry Giroux, “Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy,” pp. 1-28, from Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education.
Joe Berry, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower, pp. ix-16 (primary), -48 (secondary).
THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM – GIROUX AND ILICH
Recommended Reading:
Henry Giroux, “Social Education in the Classroom: The Dynamics of the Hidden Curriculum,” from Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning, pp. 21-37.
Ivan Ilich, Deschooling Society, pp. 25-51.
ISAs AND STRUGGLES IN SCHOOLING – ALTHUSSER JAMES AND DALLACOSTA
Recommended Reading:
Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, pp. 6-11, 14-31. 2ndary: 44-57.
Selma James and Dalla Costa, Women and the Subversion of the Community, pp. 5-19.
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF CURRICULUM – LOEWEN WILSON WILDCAT DELORIA
Recommended Reading:
James W. Loewen, “The Land of Opportunity,” from Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, pp. 204-217.
Amos Wilson, “Why Study History,” from The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness, pp. 13-45.
Vine Deloria and Daniel Wildcat, “Higher Education and Self-Determination,” “The Question of Self-Determination,” fr. Power and Place, pp. 123-153.
PURPOSE AND PARADOX OF EDUCATION – BALDWIN AND DAVIS
Recommended Reading:
James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers.”
Angela Davis, paragraph on “Political Neutrality,” 1969 speech (on education) at UCLA.
LIBERTARIAN EDUCATION – FREIRE AND HORTON
Recommended Reading:
Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, pp. 71-96.
Myles Horton and Paolo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change, “Education and Social Change,” pp. 199-226 (primary) and pp. 97-163 (secondary).
Myles Horton, The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change, pp. 72-96 (Highlander School), 99-108 (“Study the Power Structure”).
Myles Horton, The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change, pp *184-189 (“What is Liberatory Education”), 219-230 (“Crisis Education”), *272-278 (“A Circle of Learners).
ESCUELA MODERNA – AVRICH ON FERRER
Recommended Reading:
Paul Avrich, “The Martyrdom of Ferrer,” from The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States,” pp. 3-33.
(SNCC) SDS AND SI – KAYATI AND SDS
SDS, “Towards a Student Syndicalist Movement, or University Reform Revisited” (4-5pp).
Kayati, “On the Poverty of Student Life” (1966 S.I. France).
BLOWOUTS BPP AND AIM
Recommended Reading:
Chicano Student Movement Newspaper, v.1, March 1968. Philip Zonkel, “The Year the Students Walked Out,” Presstelegram. 2ndary: Ubaldo Oropeza, “The Mexican Student Movement of 1968.”
Ed Hilliard, “Introduction to the Black Panther Party Survival Programs,” “Intercommunal Youth Institute,” “Community Learning Center,” “Son of Man Temple,” from The Black Panther Service to the People Programs, pp. 3-16.
Julie Davis, “Not Just a Bunch of Radicals: A History of the Survival Schools,” “From One World to Another: Creating Alternative Indian Schools,” “Building our Own Communities: Survival School Curriculum, 1972-1982,” from Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities, pp. 1-10, 99-172.
ZAPATISTA AUTONOMOUS EDUCATION
Recommended Reading:
Raúl Zibechi, Angélica Rico, Anonymous, “Autonomous Education in the Zapatista Communities,” pp. 1-7; “Autonomous Zapatista Education: The Little Schools of Below,” pp. 1-5; “Educate in Resistance,” pp. 1-5; “Zapatista Autonomous Education,” pp. 1-11; “Showcasing Autonomous Education,” pp. 1-5; “What Do You Learn at the Zapatista School?” pp. 1-9.
QUEBEC PUERTO RICO CHILE
Recommended Reading:
Giroux, “Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement…” from Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, pp. 155-180.