Category Archives: Education

classroom as contact zone

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Michael

Today I was just thinking again about Mary Louise Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone”, and how the classroom is a contact zone. I was particularly thinking about this as how it is a contact zone of cultures (“academic” and … Continue reading →

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link from my friend seth

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Michael

Seth suggested I read this: http://thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm So I will some other time (back to school work!)

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Falling for Foucault

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Michael

Recently, I’ve been reading some Foucault for theory group and for Writing 593. I’ve read sections of The Order of Things, the essays “What is an Author” and “Nietzsche, Geneology, History,” and an excerpt from “The Order of Discourse.” From … Continue reading →

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education as a tool of dominant culture, or, alteratively, how we use education to quell the rebelliousness within us

Posted on February 26, 2006 by Michael

I’m beginning to think that, throughout time, education has been used to actually squelch rebelliousness and societal change, not to promote it, as humanists and liberal arts proponents might argue. Of course, education is not a totalitarian system meant to … Continue reading →

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