Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Educators as Intellectuals Course Readings

Per the request for other authors/readings, here's the list of the readings from the Spring 2007 Course Educators as Intellectuals: The Position of Educators in the Social Order.

Part I: The Intellectual

Week 1: Class Introduction

Read: Henry Giroux and Stanley Aronowitz, “Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals” from Education Under Siege

Week 2: What is an Intellectual?

Read: Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual
Antonio Gramsci, “The Intellectuals” and “On Education” from Prison Notebooks

Week 3: The Public Intellectual and the Postcolonial Intellectual

Read: “The Future of the Public Intellectual: A Forum”, The Nation, February 12, 2001.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010212/forum
Cornel West, “Dilemmas of the Black Intellectual”, Cultural Critique, 1985
Eduardo Mendieta, “What Can Latinas/os Learn from Cornel West?”: The Latino
Postcolonial Intellectual in the Age of the Exhaustion of Public Spheres”,
Nepantla: Views From the South, (4.2) 2003, 213-233.
Lingyan Yang, “Theorizing Asian America: On Asian American and Postcolonial Asian
Diasporic Women Intellectuals,” Journal of Asian American Studies, June 2003,
139-178.

Week 4: The Intellectual as Revolutionary

Read: Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Kathleen Weiler, “Rereading Paulo Freire” in Feminist Engagements: Rereading,
Resisting, and Revisioning Male Theorists in Education and Cultural Studies,

Week 5: The Intellectual as Activist I

Read: Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

Week 6: The Intellectual as Activist II

Read: Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement


Part II: Contexts of Engagement

Week 7: The University

Read: Stanley Aronowitz, The Knowledge Factory

Week 8: The Field of Education

Read: David Labaree, The Trouble with Ed Schools

Week 9: The School

Read: Jean Anyon, Radical Possibilities

Week 10: The Community

Read: Joao H. Costa Vargas, Catching Hell in the City of Angels

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