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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2020 |
Registration ID | EDUCB282001 |
Course Title | Teaching for Revolution |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Education |
Instructor | Wilson,Chanelle |
Times and Days | MTh 11:10am-12:30pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2376 This course will focus on the development of a critical consciousness, utilizing abolitionist teaching pedagogy and culturally responsive pedagogy, as tools for social transformation and resistance. Postcolonial Theory and Critical Race Theory will be utilized as lenses for understanding the impact of white supremacy in deeply rooted institutions. Formal schooling is often perceived as a positive vestige of colonization, yet traditional practices often continue a legacy of oppression, in different forms. Postcolonial Theory provides a variety of methodological tools for the analysis of education and culture that are especially relevant in the age of globalization, necessitating the reconceptualization of citizenship. Critical Race Theory offers a set of tenets that can be used to contextualize subjugation and implement practices that amplify the voices of the marginalized. Afro-centrism and Critical Black Feminism inform a revolutionized education, which can, and should, support students’ pursuit of a politics of resistance, subversion, and transformation. Students will engage with novels, documentaries, historical texts, and scholarly documents to explore US education as a case study. Experiential trips to Afrocentric and non-traditional educational spaces add depth to our work. In this course, we will consider the productive tensions between an explicit commitment to ideas of emancipation and progress, and the postcolonial concepts and paradigms which impact what is created in the achievement of education revolution. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI); Enrollment Cap: 14: This course is ONLY open to 360 students. This course is part of 360 Centering Critical Blackness: The systematic critical exploration of blackness and its impact on citizenship and education is important to consider in the United States’ current social climate. This cluster interrogates the ways diasporic bodies navigate change, boundaries, and disrupt systems, particularly through movement and education, from an Afro-feminist and womanist perspective. Arguing the necessity of Afrofuturist creativity and multi-disciplinary collaboration, we realize postcolonial freedom through a liberated mindset. Our exploration will include an educational speaker series, a dance/movement residency/workshops, and experiential components that investigate creative educational spaces in the mid-Atlantic region. Our goal is to convene a broad range of students and create cross-work among people who don’t always connect to each others' learning and to broader societal implications.If you are interested in the 360 program, you must fill out the application by clicking on link. https://www.brynmawr.edu/360/fall-2020-application-centering-critical-blackness. This 360 cluster includes enrolling in ARTD 270. |
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