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Created: July 27, 2003
Latest Update: April 29, 2004
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CRMJ 352: Law and Social Change

You will be held accountable for purposes of grading for the readings and exercises listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.

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Week 16: Week of May 2, 2004

Topic: Teaching/Learning Revisited

Preparatory Readings:

• Special Note: Monday, April 26th through Wednesday, May 5th, the second mandatory meeting will take place. If you have not signed up for a meeting date/time, please see me ASAP. Be sure to bring your journal and other evidence of learning. Keep in mind that these meetings are very brief. Don't be a NO SHOW!
  
  
• Arrigo. Social Justice, Criminal Justice
• Mann and Zatz. Images of Color, Images of Crime
• Metaphor and Theory. Read the Blind Men and the Elephant fable. Think about how this fable relates to the course.

Lecture related links:



• Martha Minow. Making All the Difference: Exclusion, Inclusion and American Law. Check out this link Martha Minow on the Dear Habermas site.
• "They Ain't Us: Identity as an Anti-Norm"
  
• W.I. Thomas "Definition of the Situation
  
  
• Links to the Sociology of Law Handbook readings
  -- Introduction
  -- Chapter 1, part 1
  -- Chapter 1, part 2
  -- Chapter 2
  



Concepts/individuals to be covered:

• the aesthetic process of answerability
• taxonomy of learning
• external motivation vs. internal motivation



Discussion Questions:

Discussion Questions:

Note: This set of discussion questions is optional. You can select a question and email me your answer in "25 words or less."

1. What was the most interesting creative measure that you worked on this semester? Why.
2. What is the most important thing you learned in this course? Why.
3. What advice would you give to students new to this teaching/learning approach? Why.
4. What ideas and suggestions do you have to improve on this teaching/learning approach? Why.
   

Suggested Creative Measures:

• Show and Tell: Find an imaginative approach to presenting one of your most interesting creative measures.

• Explore one of these topics:
  --- the relationship of Alfie Kohn to this teaching/learning approach.
  --- improvements to this teaching/learning model.
  

Recommended Readings:

• Alfie Kohn.Beyond Discipline.
• Alfie Kohn. No Contest.
• Alfie Kohn. Punished by Reward.
• Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
• Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Freedom.
• Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope.
• Peter McLaren. Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution.
  
  
• George Ritzer. The McDonaldization of Society.
• Gordon Fellman. . Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival.
• Jurgen Habermas. Between Facts and Norms.
  
  

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