SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paulo Freire, Critical Consciousness, Discourse Analysis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Education (more broadly than just schooling) is always a social project: aimed at either maintaining or changing the status quo. Not just schooling: learning more broadly, public education; museums, galleries, popular culture, etc. These can all be considered sites of education. Formal schooling: often experienced as an exclusionary space, as a space where dominant ideologies get reproduced, as a spa(cid:272)e that (cid:373)akes (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) people feel like the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elo(cid:374)g. The p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess of de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g a (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e(cid:374)ess of o(cid:374)e"s social reality through reflection and action. Education as a practice of freedom (rather then a practice of domination) Two ways of thinking about the aims of education: social reproduction education that seeks to maintain the status quo. To socialize a new generalization; to build and reinforce existing collective identities and knowledges. Encourages students to adapt to the world as it is: social transformation education that seeks to transform individuals and societies.