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Created: August 31, 2001
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Review and Teaching Essay by Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata
Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors: August 2001. "Fair use" encouraged.
- “I’m not Lying, This Is Not A Pipe”: Foucault and Magritte on the Art of Critical Pedagogy by James Palermo.
- It Certainly Looks Like A Pipe: Foucault and the Californai Achievement Test by Murray Ross.
- Teaching Essay on Aesthetics and Communicating across Racism
Teaching Essay on Aesthetics
and Communicating Across RacismThis essay is based on two articles on critical pedagogy in education:
- “I’m not Lying, This Is Not A Pipe”: Foucault and Magritte on the Art of Critical Pedagogy by James Palermo. Buffalo State College.
- It Certainly Looks Like A Pipe: Foucault and the Californai Achievement Test by Murray Ross. University of British Columbia.
Because they have important implications for an understanding of dominant discourse and its constraint of the imaginary, and also relate to much that we have to say about critical race theory in Fall 2001, the concepts are important to all our classes.
Notes:
Foucault was trying to find a place in the world where those who are "different" could live without repression. His concern with supervision, control, power, and punishment thus led him to be most sensitive to difference and to offer considerable insight to the dilemma of difference.
In the articles that accompany this essay, the authors are concerned with differences that result in harm in pedagogy. Sometimes the difference is race, sometimes skin color, sometimes religion, sometimes nation-state allegiance, but difference tends to be constrained by our concern for normalization, for consensus, as evidenced by our poor tolerance of ambiguity.
A few of the theorists we will discuss who focus on difference are Martha Minow, Duncan Kennedy, Kimberly Crenshaw in law, Hockenberry in popular journalism, Lewis R. Gordon in philosophy and African American Studies, Paulo Freire in education. And, of course, Habermas.
You will recognize this essay as having inspired our "How to Navigate the Site" and it's This is Not a Book.
More soon . . . Please note that these essays assume that you are at a graduate level. If you have difficulty with them, just skim them until the essay is up to guide you. jeanne
The French Foucualt.
The American Foucault, last paragraph of Ross' paper.contradictions, resemblance and similitude
"important words the switching of codes."
In this connection we want to go to Freire and Hockenberry and codes, and elaborated and restricted language codes, and explore the extent to which codes are open, and the extent to which they suffer from circles of certainty. Women's ways of knowing.