SOC 603 Lecture : Class 2 – September 9.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 603
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

Stories as social indexes indexes predominant ideas of the current culture. Stories evoke practices of identification (identifying with character/lesson) Stories aren"t isolated, we read intertextually. (stories have other supporting stories. : our current knowledge is used within our readings. Conventional pedagogy conventional way of teaching and learning. A transmission style of education. (passing from one person to another, ie. reading words = knowledge) This pedagogy is consistent with conventional social science. Key underpinning assumption: there is a kernel of knowledge to be transmitted and learned: kernel could be something as the right answer. The work of pedagogy is to transmit that knowledge as clearly and definitively as possible. The job of the teacher is to be a fairly neutral objective and omniscient purveyor of knowledge. Attentive to the imbrication of power and knowledge. Moves between imparting info and staging encounters with ideas. Asks questions that trouble the taken for granted.