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Global Seminar : Education: Winter 2015

Readings

Preparatory Reading - Bohm, David. On Dialogue. New York : Routledge, 2004.

 

Week 1 - Mapping Intentions

Illich, Ivan. "To Hell With Good Intentions." In Combining Service and Learning: A Resource Book for Community and Public Service. Ed. Jane C. Kendall et al. Raleigh, N.C.: National Society for Internships and Experiential Education, 1990. 1:314-20

"Learning to Read”- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

 

Week 2 - Antioch Reinventions

Morgan, Arthur E. "Demand of the Age on Colleges" In A Compendium of Antioch Notes. Yellow Springs, Ohio : Kahoe & Co., 1930.

 

Week 3 - Escaping Education

Freire, Paulo. "From Oppression to Liberation" In Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York : Continuum, 2000. Selections.

Shor, Ira and Paulo Freire.  A Pedagogy for Liberation: dialogues on transforming education. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1987. Selections

 

Week 4

Prakash, Madhu Suri and Gustavo Esteva. Escaping education : living as learning within grassroots cultures. 2nd ed. New York : P. Lang, 2008. Selections.

 

Week 5- From Local to Global

X, Malcolm with Alex Haley. Autobiography Of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press. 1966.

 

Week 6

Webster, Chaun. Because When We Say Nat, it be Writ Large. Free Poet's Press, 2012. Selections.

Alexander, Michelle. The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York : New Press, 2012. Selections. 

 

Week 7 & 9

Boal, Augusto. Aesthetics of the Oppressed. Trans. Adrian Jackson. New York : Routledge, 2006. Selections.