Note: Everyone should bring their own beverage container (mug, glass, cup) to class each week.
Coffee will be provided weekly. Please contribute $0.25 – $0.50 cents/cup to pay for supplies if you drink coffee.
Groups are asked to bring snack food items and alternative beverages for their assigned weeks (ex: bottled water, juice, soda, lemonade). We have not yet counted the people in the class to help you in your planning.
August 31: All School Introductions
- Required Readings:: Jean Anyon article, Paulo Freire chapter 2, Lisa Delpit excerpt
- Suggested Readings: Freire, chapter 1
- Due: Education Ethnography
September 7: Theories & Models of Democracy
- Required Reading: Cornel West chapters 1 & 2
- Suggested Readings: Galtung chapter, Iris Marion Young chapters 1 & 2
September 14: Theories & Models of Democracy
- Required Readings: Westheimer & Kahne article, Read Stout, Chapter 18
September 21: Theories of Change & Organizing
- Required Reading: Gene Sharp excerpt, Read Warren chapter
- Suggested Readings: What is and is not community organizing (from web-site)
- Due: 1st Civic Discourse Research
September 28: Civilities & Civil Rights, Introduction
- Required Reading: Chafe to p. 70
- Suggested Reading: http://www.progressivemyth.com
- Due: Blog Self-Assessment
- Discussion Questions (PDF)
October 5: Greensboro’s Past & Present
- International Civil Rights Museum Tour
- Required Reading: Chafe to p. 130
- Due: Stakeholder Analysis (Part one of Final Project)
- Due: 2nd Civic Discourse Research
October 12: Greensboro’s Struggles Continue
- Required Reading: Chafe to p. 180
- Suggested Reading: The Context (.doc)
- Guest Speakers: Nelson & Joyce Johnson (tentative) on the Greensboro Massacre
- Due: Power Analysis (Part two of final project)
October 19: Resistance & Action (Note: Guilford College on Fall Break)
- Required Reading: Chafe to p. 202
- Due: 3rd Civic Discourse Research
October 26: Education in Greensboro
- Readings: Readings Document, Schott Report
- Guest speakers: Parents Supporting Parents
- Note: Final Project Draft is due next week
November 2: Education: Local, National, International
- Note: Class will meet at Bennett College
- Readings: Launching the Multiversity & Reclaiming Our Freedom to Learn
- Due: Final Project Draft (Part three of final project)
- Due: 4th Civic Discourse Research
November 9: To Solutions: Organizing for Change
- Note: Class will meet at Bennett College
- Readings on Market-Based Approaches to Reform
1) Ravitch, D. (2011, September 29). School reform: A failing grade. New York Review of Books.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/school-reform-failing-grade/
2) Minnich, E. & Kahn, S. (2005). Fox in the henhouse: How privatization threatens democracy, Introduction and Chapter 11. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.(PDFs attached)
- Readings on Community-Driven Approaches to Reform
3) Communities for Excellent Public Schools (2010, July). A sustainable success model, Washington, DC: Communities for Excellent Public Schools.
http://ceps-ourschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Publication4-Sustainable_Success_3pager-9.30.11.pdf
4) Communities for Excellent Public Schools (2010, July). Our communities left behind: An analysis of the administration’s school turn-around policy. Washington, DC: Communities for Excellent Public Schools.
http://ceps-ourschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Publication3-ExecutiveSummary.pdf
5) Chajet, L. (2011). The Campaign for Non-Violent Schools: Students Flip the Script on Violence in Philadelphia (pp. 24-30), in Youth organizing for education reform 30. Providence, RI: Brown University.
http://annenberginstitute.org/sites/default/files/vue/342/VUE30.pdf
- Naomi Klein YouTube Clips
Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3Pb_StJn4
Part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du3mpRkaz8g&feature=relmfu
Part 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2gYUVURAI&feature=relmfu
Part 4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRvuGLM_Pe4&feature=relmfu
Part 5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FcoU0LLUU&feature=relmfu
Part 6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG_xRZW32X0&feature=relmfu
November 16: An Alternative Vision; Democratic Theory
November 23: No class, Thanksgiving Break
November 30: Conference Preparation
December 2-3: Conference at A&T
- Community Projects Due
- Note: Students will receive communication from their home instructor regarding additional class meetings before August 31 and/or after December 3.