Recording: Edu L3

Duration: 111 Minutes

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RECORDING ISSUE

Poor Audio Quality

● The poor quality of the recording made many of the speaker's words inaudible. There
are also some inconsistencies with the audio making it difficult to follow and understand.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Groupwork
● Choose the system of education implemented within Canada.
○ Include the person or policy responsible for the creation of the system.
○ What were the reasons or purposes they came up with for creating the system?
○ Who were the intended targets?
○ Why did the system improve the overall well-being of the population it served?
○ Were there any connections with the systems of education and theoretical
frames you have explored in the reading lectures?
○ What would you change or add to the system of education you have chosen?
● Do your best to make your presentation engaging.
● Possible systems
○ Residential school
○ Segregated school
○ Indigenous schools
○ Afrocentric schools
○ Religious-based schools
○ Outdoor educational systems
● If you're going to do a blog, at least have some images to show.
● Make sure that you cite other people's work.

LECTURE

Education
● It is deliberate, systematic, and sustained efforts to transmit people for acquired
knowledge, values, attitudes, skills, and sensibilities.
● It is a complex that embodies diverse meanings across time and space.

Frameworks: Education
● Sociology - Teaching to Transgress
● Philosophy - Look at whether or not education is political.

Sociology of Education
 ● It refers to the socializing aspect of education.
● It is how English education plays a significant role in transferring, reproducing,
reinforcing, and maintaining the norms, values, and beliefs of any given society.
○ Norms and values often conflict with what you learn at home.
● Education does not interconnect or bridge the gap between home and school.
○ The values that you honor at home is not the value that you honor at school.
● Education is viewed as an agent of social control in teaching students to obey authority
through the delivery of formal and informal practices.
○ You are taught to obey authority so that even when you have the chance to be
who you want to be, you're still obedient.
● Sociologists are also exploring how education as an institution produces and maintains
inequity in a society.
○ Who is excluded?
○ How particular groups within the context of education are depicted?

Education as a Practice of Freedom

● It is a method of teaching which emphasizes student-centered person teaching in a way
where everyone learns.
● Everyone can learn.
○ Maybe not at the same rate and at the same time, but everyone truly can learn.
● Teach in a sense that everyone can learn.
● Education is not just about sharing information.
○ It is not a one-way street.
○ It is to share the intellectual and spiritual growth of students.
● Education is a promise.
○ Once you're finished, you should get a job.
● There are lots of indigenous scholars who did not go through the formal education
system, but they're indigenous scholars.
● There are lots of black scholars who did not go through the education system, but they
are scholars.
● Education is supposed to be communicated

Grounding the Understanding of Education in Sociological Frames

● We should be giving knowledge, and they should be giving us knowledge.
● Banking concept of education
○ Students are viewed as empty spaces that need to be filled with the all-knowing
educator.
○ Students need to consume the information fed to them by educators, memorize
it, and regurgitate it back perfectly to the educator, who then rewards them.
○ The teacher teaches and the students are taught.
○ The teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined.
○ The teacher chose the program content and the students were not consulted.
○ The teacher is the subject of the learning process, while the pupil is the mere
object.
 ● To learn
○ You have to have dialogue or speak to people.
○ You have to reinvent things and change ways of thinking, and ways of knowing.
○ Accept different things.
● Understand that everything in life must be learned through inquiry.
● In the banking model concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who
consider themselves knowledgeable for those who they consider to know nothing.
● Sociology is a part of the social understanding of the world.

Freire
● Freire said that liberatory education is a praxis.
○ The action and reflection of men and women upon their world to transform it.
○ If we want education to be liberatory, we want it to be free or feel free.
■ We have to constantly reflect on our actions.
● Problem posing model
○ The dialogue between the educator and the students.
○ It teaches students to be conscious of themselves and the world around them.
○ It is an education as a practice of freedom as opposed to education as a practice
of domination.
○ We must include diverse ways of knowing so that you become a well-rounded
global citizen.
○ Problem posing education as a humanist and liberating praxis presents on
fundamentals that the people subjected to domination must fight for their
emancipation.
● Conscientization
○ Hooks refer to as being critically aware and meaningfully engaged in the teaching
and learning process.
○ Every student must be an active participant in the teaching and learning
processes.
○ Education can only be participatory when everyone claims knowledge as a field
in which we all labor.

Hanh - Wholeness Approach

● He thinks of an older approach that ties into the wholeness.
○ It is a union of mind, body, and soul. Like virtuality.
○ It is the capacity to see each other as whole human beings thriving not just for
knowledge in books, but knowledge about how to live in the world.
● Educators must engage in the process of self-actualization.
● Educators must promote their own well-being before they can effectively support the
well-being of their students.
● The education system maintains a duality of identity both from students and teachers.
○ Separation of the private and the public
■ There is no connection between your lived experiences and what you are
being taught.
Benefits of Engaged Pedagogy
● It allows students to take responsibility for their choice.
● Evaluate students' expression.
● Educators and students grow, learn, and are empowered within an engaged pedagogy.
● Both the students and the educator are engaged to take the risk.
● It transformed the curriculum to be inclusive and free of biases.
● It is a site of resistance for students and educators, specifically those who have been
historically and contemporarily marginalized.
● It provides students with the tools to question and examine the world and their location
and connection to it.
● It fosters equity and equitable outcomes for all students.

Political Dimension in Education

● Explore the extent to which you can think of education and teaching as implicated in
political considerations and concerns.
● Normative, political, and hegemonic
○ The normative approach to education suggests that all concepts of education are
normative and are rooted in sociocultural conditions, beliefs, and values.
○ Education tradition list is a conservative or right-of-center position.
● Professionals are as interested in accountability and economically efficient educational
practices as a politician.
● The professionals and politicians are accountable to the public.
● The quality of education from a political and administrative viewpoint is always measured
by the economic value to a society.
○ Good education improves the economic capacity of a society.
● The main supporters of the competence model are politicians and educational
administrators whose aim is to regulate teachers' performance in accordance with
desirable standards.
● Free market educational initiative
○ The quality of education is based solely on examination results, which are tied to
funding and awards.
○ Students are seen as commodities, not human beings.
○ Binding model of education
■ Students who have social and emotional needs and require extra support,
are lost in the model.
● Educational principles are often aligned with a political perspective of the party in power,
whether it is traditional with a right-wing or conservative or progressive, with a left-wing
or socialist.

(1:29:40, The professor played a video on education and sociology.)

● There are pedagogies designed to undercut the possibility for students to be critical
thinkers, critically conscious, and to be aware of their cultural capital and strengths and
their place in the world.
 ○ Pedagogies of oppression
● The debate about education today represents a new pedagogical stupidity because it
completely ignores the most fundamental question of education, where education is for,
and it ignores the most fundamental struggle inherent in education, which is a struggle
over identities and agencies.
● The notion of neutrality in education is the worst form of politics in itself.
○ It's a political issue.
● Technology is a part of a larger struggle over cultural politics.