香港六合彩

This module builds on earlier modules that introduce students to central ways of understanding and analysing different forms of educational practice, provision, policy and governance, and critical theoretical frameworks that enable reflection on the broader social purposes, values and significance of education.听听

This module will encourage students to step back from some familiar ways of thinking about what education is and its effects on society and individuals, in order to ask fundamental questions about what education should and can be. We will approach this through an exploration of some historical and contemporary experiments in radical education and critiques of the dominant model of state schooling.听听

Our exploration will involve an engagement with primary texts by proponents of radical educational approaches and theoretical work on central moral and political questions to do with the relationship between education and society, human flourishing, freedom, identity, responsibility, democracy and justice. The discussions throughout the module will focus on questions to do with the meaning and use of the terms 鈥渞adical鈥�, 鈥渞adicalism鈥� and 鈥渞adical education鈥�. A central aim of the module is to develop an awareness and understanding of the social, historical and political context of ideas about the purposes and meaning of education.听

Teaching delivery:鈥� This module is taught in 10 weekly meetings (with no distinct lecture versus seminar division). 鈥�听

Indicative Topics:鈥�Based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes.

鈥淲hat is radical?鈥�; 鈥淧aulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy and bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress鈥�; 鈥淎gusto Boal鈥檚 Theatre of the Oppressed鈥�; 鈥淭olstoy's Yasnaya Polyana and Neill's Summerhill鈥�; 鈥淪ocialist Schooling鈥�; 鈥淏lack Empowerment and Liberation through Radical Pedagogy鈥�; 鈥淩adical Film Education.鈥� Based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes.听

Module Aims:鈥�听

• Enable students to reflect critically on the political and philosophical aspects of dominant ideas about the purposes of education, and dominant forms of educational听 provision;听
• Situate educational ideas and values in a historical context;听
• Develop an understanding and appreciation of the various ways in which ideas about the aims and meaning of education have been and continue to be contested;听
• Imagine and describe a radical school of their own, while considering the challenges to forming such an endeavor.听

By the end of this module, students will have developed:听

• A familiarity with a range of different views on the aims of education;听
• An understanding of the complex ways in which these views are intertwined with political ideas and values;听
• An appreciation of the intellectual traditions that have informed fundamental ways of thinking about social and political values and their implications for educational ideas and practice;听
• An ability to reflect critically on various forms of radical and alternative education and their underlying assumptions about individuals and society.鈥�听
• An ability to imagine and advocate for a wide range of different possible approaches to education in order to realize individual and social transformations. Students will be ready to use education to change the world.听

Recommended readings:鈥�

• Freire, Paulo. 1996. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. New revised edition. London: Penguin Books.听
• Andrews, Kehinde. 2013. Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality, and the Black Supplementary School Movement. London, UNITED KINGDOM: Institute of Education Press (IOE Press). .