HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jeremy Bentham, Aryan Race, Critical Pedagogy

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

Document Summary

Institutions impact inequalities faced by youth and children. Panopticon: the professor can see us, we see the back of the heads of those in front so it"s like a penitentiary where the prof is in the tower to view disruptive behavior. Chief pedagogue at the front with the inmates sitting in front of him or her that must respond to the marching orders of the authority or teacher. Parents at front of the table is the same thing. Institutions are deliberately designed so parents or teachers provide surveillance and panopticon gaze. Not all people have the mindset of wanting education, in canada or western societies we typically only want credentials. Quotation of 17 year old speaking of education system in ontario (on lecture notes). Education part of and continuing cycle of violence and war against youth and children. We are thinking beings and not cogs in this bureaucracy. There are common sense explanations of the inequality felt.