CST Popular Ed Intro Curriculum Analysis

Critical Social Theory: Popular Education as Curriculum AnalysisV. AgostoUSF : 

Critical Social Theory: Popular Education as Curriculum AnalysisV. AgostoUSF

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Popular Education According to Conrad (2004), “Popular education is alternatively known as people’s education or education for self-reliance (Africa), education for mass mobilization (Asia), cultural animation (Europe) and transformational education (North America)”. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2004, 3(1) 21 Critical Pedagogy Anti-Oppressive Education Ecopedagogy Multicultural Education (that is social reconstructionist) Social Justice Education Anti- Bias Education Curriculum Studies

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Major Concepts Curriculum/Pedagogy Culture Quality Education Critique Hope

Curriculum/Instruction : 

Curriculum/Instruction Official Curriculum (Apple, 1990) - (Planned, Enacted) Hidden Curriculum (Cornbleth, 1984; Jackson, 1968; Kentli, 2009; Margolis et al, 2001) Null Curriculum (Eisner, 1985)

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of Dominated Cultures in the United States Joel H. Spring About the author: Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin. His father was born a citizen of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory prior to the abolishment of the Choctaw government and the creation of Oklahoma http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/spring/author.mhtml : 

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of Dominated Cultures in the United States Joel H. Spring About the author: Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin. His father was born a citizen of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory prior to the abolishment of the Choctaw government and the creation of Oklahoma http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/spring/author.mhtml

Culture : 

Culture Michel Foucault (1926-1984) describes culture as 'a hierarchical organization of values, accessible to everybody, but at the same time the occasion of a mechanism of selection and exclusion' Foucault (2001). L'hermeneutique du sujet. Cours au Collège de France, 1981-1982. Paris: Gallimard Seuil, p. 173.

Culture : 

Culture Discuss your understandings of the concept “culture”? Returning to Foucault’s description of culture as 'a hierarchical organization of values, accessible to everybody, but at the same time the occasion of a mechanism of selection and exclusion’, discuss how this definition is accurate, limited, or generative for thinking about the terms: deculturalization and cultural genocide (Spring).

Critique in Quality Education : 

Critique in Quality Education (Zeus Leonardo, 2004) Leonardo (2010). A Response to Michael Apple’s “Theory, Research, and the Critical Scholar/Activist” Apple, M. (2010). Book Review Educational Researcher http://edr.sagepub.com/content/39/2/152.full?ijkey=hWsF6Wzxb.HNc&keytype=ref&siteid=spedr

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Critical Pedagogy Begins with a Question

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http://www.algebra.org/ THE ALGEBRA PROJECT “MATH LITERACY IS THE KEY TO 21st CENTURY CITIZENSHIP”

Drop Out (or Push Out?) Rates : 

Drop Out (or Push Out?) Rates According to the Urban Institute, 50% of African American 9th graders, 49% of Native Americans, and 47% of Latinos/as do not graduate from high school in four years. In some poor urban and rural schools, drop-out rates approach 80%. (Algebra Project Website: http://www.algebra.org/need.php

Freedom Summer, Freedom Schools : 

Freedom Summer, Freedom Schools Freedom Summer Voter Registration Jim Crow Laws Highlander Folk School Freedom Schools 1964 1988

http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=miami1218820340 : 

http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=miami1218820340 http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/GilliamSmith%20Rhonda.pdf?miami1218820340

FREEDOM SCHOOLS CURRICULUM : 1964FREEDOM SCHOOLS TODAY: CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND : 

FREEDOM SCHOOLS CURRICULUM : 1964FREEDOM SCHOOLS TODAY: CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/A_05_PDFs.htm CURRICULUM Text Only: pp 10-12

Hope : 

Hope Pedagogy of possibility Utopic thinking Ideals