What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Friday, February 12, 2010

HW 40 - School Interviews x 5 & Synthesis

Part A - Please interview five diverse people (self, family, friends, acquaintances, etc) about a particular aspect of school.

Some aspects that we came up with in various sections include:
  • Making school better
  • The experience of being a student
  • School as a sorting machine
  • School as machine for conquering and puppeteering a population
  • Pedagogic techniques - grading, testing, etc.
  • The motivations of school - for the student, parent, teacher, system
  • The functions of school - both actual and claimed/rhetorical
  • The historical development and transformations of US schools

Please make your interview questions high quality - they should evoke real thinking, non-predictable responses, and insight.

After transcribing notes from each of the interviews, please turn to Part B.

Part B:
Please synthesize insights from your interviews (that you figured out or that someone said) to write a paragraph or two about a particular aspect of school that you find important and interesting.

Parts A & B should be posted on your blog Sunday the 21st of February by 9pm.


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