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. One survey is regarding your 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. Survey links will be posted on Blackboard and sent via the announcement section.

 Guiding questions for the class session: 

• What is education? What is formal schooling? What is the difference between them? Similarities? How do you know?
• Should we compare learning in different parts of the world? Compare to what? To whom? What are the benefits? Drawbacks?
• How can be begin to shift our paradigm to conceptualize, address, and dismantle educational injustice as global citizens?

PREZI

Topic: The Revolution Will Be…Digitized? Digital Revolution of Schooling & Learning 

Together, we will explore how schooling, learning, and knowing has been revolutionized by both the global pandemic and technology.

Did COVID-19 permanently change the landscape of education? What are the intersections between COVID-19 and the technological revolution of schools? How has schooling, learning, and knowing been technologically revolutionized? And how have platforms like TikTok, IG, and Patreon changed how people learn, know, and grow? What does this mean for existing educational inequality in the U.S. and abroad? The future?

Readings:

• Alarmed By A.I Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach, New York Times 
• COVID-19 Changed Education in America-Permanently, Politico 
• Coronavirus and Challenging Times for Education in Developing Countries, Brookings
• TikTok, Gas, and Twitter: How Social Media Is Influencing Education, EdWeek
• Here’s A Radical Suggestion: Stop Simplifying Black Women. Harvard Gazette. 

In-Class Workshop: Deconstructing Padlets + Prezis

For this class session, we will dedicate about an hour to exploring the digital Prezi and Padlet platforms for semesterly assignments. You will be provided with a iPad in class, but you’re free to bring your own device if you’d like.

Prezi for this topic here

Topic: Early Sociological Approaches To Understanding Education

Readings:

• Chapter 1, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” W.E.B DuBois, pp.7-15, (excerpt from the Souls of Black Folk)
• W.E.B DuBois and the Sociological Canon, Contexts Magazine
• “Bourgeois and Proletarians,” Karl Marx (excerpt from the Communist Manifesto) (ONLY READ pgs. 14-22)
• Does Sociology Silence Black Women? Gender and Society 

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 1 for annotation due 2/28/2024
• Click here to access Padlet 1 for response due 2/28/2024

Prezi for this topic here 

Topic: Reimagining and Repositioning How We Think Through Education

Readings:

• Ch. 2 from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire, pp. 71-86, (ONLY READ CH. 2)
• “Theory As Liberatory Practice,” bell hooks, pp. 59-75 (excerpt from Teaching to Transgress)
• “Essentialism and Experience,” bell hooks, pp. 77-92 (excerpt from Teaching to Transgress)

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 2 for annotation due 3/6/2024
• Click here to access Padlet 2 for response due 3/6/2024

Prezi for this topic here 

Topic: The Intersections of Schooling, Settler Colonialism, & Post Colonialism

Readings:

• “Mythical Portrait of the Colonized,” pp. 79-89, Albert Memmi, excerpt from The Colonizer & The Colonized 
• Discourse On Colonialism, read pp. 35-46, Aime Cesaire
• The Books I Never Had: Palestinian Children’s Literature, Rethinking Schools (2023) 
• Stolen Bodies, Stolen Land: Contemplating Blackness and Indigeneity, The Black Youth Project

@ravenreveals

had you ever thought of african people in this way? do you think this could have an impact on how we imagine avenues to freedom? let’s talk about it! ✨

♬ Eternal – Danilo Stankovic

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 3 for annotation due 3/13/2024
• Click here to access Padlet 3 for response due 3/13/2024

Prezi for this topic here 

3/14/2024

Topic: The Intersections of Schooling, Settler Colonialism, & Post Colonialism

Film: Rabbit Proof Fences

Assignment:

• Click here to access Perusall 4 for annotation due 3/20
• Click here to access Padlet 4 for response due 3/20

3/21/2024

Topic: What Does It Mean to Decolonize Education? And Can We Even Do It? 

@cntrtnr

“Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang. An absolute banger. #landback #decolonization

♬ Aesthetic – Tollan Kim

Readings:

• “Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor,” Eve Tuck, pp. 1-36
• “Concerning Violence,” Frantz Fanon, pp. 1-14 (excerpt from the Wretched of the Earth)
• Decolonizing the Classroom: Lessons in Multicultural Education, Wayne Au
• Let’s Stop Using Metaphors that Celebrate Extraction, Colonialism, and Violence, Rethinking Schools (2023) 

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 5 for annotation due 3/27
• Click here to access Padlet 5 for response due 3/27

Prezi for this topic here 

Topic: What Does It Mean to Decolonize Education? And Can We Even Do It? 

Film: Luce

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 6 for annotation due 4/3
• Click here to access Padlet 6 for response due 4/3

4/4/2024

Topic: Capitalism & The Social Engineering of Social Class Injustices 

 Readings:

• “Coming To Class Consciousness,” bell hooks, pp. 24-37 (excerpt from Where We Stand: Class Matters)
• Social Class and School Knowledge, Jean Anyon, pp. 1-43
• Finding or losing yourself? Working-Class Relationships to Education, Diane Reay (BB)
• How School Lunch Debt Creates Shame and Inequality — and Our Fight to Abolish It, Rethinking Schools (2023)

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 7 for annotation due 4/10
• Click here to access Padlet 7 for response due 4/10

Prezi for this topic here 

Topic: Racial Neoliberalism & The Push for Privatization

Readings:

• “Profit & Debt”, Leigh Patel, pp.69-101 (excerpt from No Study Without Struggle) (BB)
• How School Choice Turns Education Into a Commodity, Turner (The Atlantic)
• From Katrina to Maria: Disaster Capitalism’s Playbook for School Reform,” The People’s World 
• $7, 200 for Every Student: Arizona’s Ultimate Experiment in School Choice, NYT (2023)
• School Debt: The Great Equalizer, Rethinking Schools (2023)

 Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusal 8 for annotation due 4/17
• Click here to access Padlet 8 for response due 4/17

Heads Up Alert! In class we’ll watch The Battle for Paradise together, a video documenting how disaster capitalism is impacting Puerto Rico. 

Prezi for this topic here 

Topic: Patriarchy & The Institution of Gender & Sexuality 

Readings:

• “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference,” Audre Lorde, pp.1-7
• Barriers to Girls’ Education, Strategies and Interventions, UNICEF
• What Afghans Want The Rest of the World To Know, Busha Seddique, The Atlantic 
• Introduction from Pushout: Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Morris (BB)
• “But I’m Not Gay!” What Straight Teachers Need to Know About Queer Theory, Chapter 1
• What’s It Like to Be Out As LGBTQ at School, Nick Fiorellini, Teen Vogue

@lab_shenanigans

Even the science topics we’re taught in school can be skewed by gender bias! @tedtoks

♬ –

In Class Film: Girl Rising 

Assignment:

• Click here to access Perusall 9 for annotation due 5/1
• Click here to access Padlet 9 for response due 5/1

Prezi for this topic here

Topic: The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Antiblackness

Readings:

• Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and The Death of Black Desire,” Frank B. Wilderson III, pp. 37-48 (excerpt from Antiblackness) (BB)
• Almost All Black British Children Have Experienced Racism at School, WEF
• Confronting Gun Violence Means Confronting Our Legacy of White Male Sovereignty, Rethinking Schools (2023)
• The Chilling Effects of So-Called Critical Race Theory Bans, Rethinking Schools (2023) 

Assignment Due:

• Click here to access Perusall 10 for annotation due 5/8
• Click here to access Padlet 10 for response due 5/8

Heads Up Alert! In class we’ll watch this video about how the Black students at Brigham Young University used TikTok to address antiblackness at their school! 

Prezi for this topic here

5/16/2024

Topic: The Question of (Dis)ability 

Readings:

• Critical Disability Studies and ‘Inclusive’ Early Childhood Education: The Ongoing Divide

• School choice or the politics of desperation? Black and Latinx parents of students with dis/abilities selecting charter schools in Chicago, Waitoller & Super

• Students with Disabilities Deserve Inclusion

Topic: So Where Do We Go From Here? The Politics of Abolition, Re(Definition), & Liberation  

Readings:

• “Eros, Eroticism, and The Pedagogical Process,” bell hooks (excerpt from Teaching to Transgress)
• “Unfinished Lecture On Liberation,” Angela Davis

Prezi for this topic here