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A Critical Humanist Curriculum, Kevin Magill, Arturo Rodriguez
A Critical Humanist Curriculum, Kevin Magill, Arturo Rodriguez
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
This essay is a critical humanist discussion of curriculum; a departure from the technicist view of education [education meant to support a global capitalist economy] and an analysis of curriculum considering critical humanism, political economy and critical race theory among other modes of critical analysis and inquiry. Our discussion supports a revolutionary curriculum: the turn from a static coercive system of domination where the everyday lives of students are controlled to a dynamic liberatory education where education supports a student's imaginary (Pinar), creativity and their everyday practice of freedom (Freire, Greene, hooks).
Circling The Drain: Why Creativity Won’T Be Coming To School Today, Or Ever, David Gabbard
Circling The Drain: Why Creativity Won’T Be Coming To School Today, Or Ever, David Gabbard
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
We hear a lot of talk, recently, about America’s deepening “creativity crisis”(Seargeant Richardson, 2011) and what schools can do to resolve it. To whatever extent such a crisis is real (Schrage, 2010), we should not expect schools to be part of the solution. From its inception, compulsory schooling in the United States has always served the values of our nation’s dominant institutions and the interests of the social, political, and economic elites who own, control, and benefit most from the social arrangements and relations engendered by those institutions. To organize and operate a set of institutions dedicated to promoting critical …