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8/25/2022
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Topic: Introduction to Course: Welcome!During this session we will go over the course syllabus, updated Lehman College COVID protocols, and get to know one another. Before the next class session, please be sure to respond to the two Google surveys I will send out through Blackboard. I will also embed the link on our CUNY Commons site in this section. One survey is regarding your preferred name and pronouns. The second survey is soliciting your thoughts and interests in course topics. In other words, select a topic that you would like to learn about this semester. This can be a topic you’d like to explore further, something you’d like to better understand, or just something you’d like to contribute. Our syllabus will be modified to incorporate and reflect your contributions. Guiding questions for the class session:
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9/8/2022
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Topic: Learning in the Era of COVIDThis class session will be heavily discussion based. Think about how COVID has shaped K-12 education as well as higher education. Did COVID permanently change the landscape of education? Were those changes temporary? What does this mean for existing educational inequality? The future? Before our discussion, please read: |
9/15/2022 | Topic: Classical Sociological Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Education
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9/22/2022
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Topic: Reimagining and Repositioning How We Think About Education: Critical Theories
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10/6/2022
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Topic: Settler Colonialism in Education
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10/13/2022
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Topic: Settler Colonialism in Education: Cont’d
In Class Film: Rabbit Proof Fences Assignment:
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10/20/2022
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Topic: Decolonization and Anti-Coloniality in Education
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10/27/2022 |
Topic: Decolonization and Anti-Coloniality in Education
In-Class Film: Luce To fully work through the film Luce, please make sure that you have read the excerpt from Fanon’s Wretch of the Earth assigned for last class. Assignment Due:
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11/3/2022 |
Topic: Capitalism and Social Class Injustices in Education
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11/10/2022
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Topic: The Push for Privatization: Neoliberalism in Education
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11/17/2022
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Topic: Patriarchy, Gender, & Injustice in Education
In Class Film: Girl Rising Assignment:
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12/1/2022 |
Topic: White Supremacy and Antiblackness in Education
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12/8/2022 |
Topic: On Knowledge and Knowing: Questioning Curriculum
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Assignment Due: Curriculum Investigation Project Due 12/8: In groups you will be provided with a sample text or curriculum used in schools. You will discuss what that text or curriculum teaches students (both explicitly and implicitly), what it leaves out, and what it distorts/revises. To anchor this conversation in class, we will draw from the works of Ibram X. Kendi (Stamped from the Beginning) & Howard Zinn (A People’s History). Moving the conversation further along, we will consider the implications of curriculum on knowing/knowledge. For instance, what impact has your curriculum had on you? How would you change the curriculum? Additional guidelines will be posted on Blackboard and discussed in class.
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