ED-5810: Seminar on Freedom and Responsibility

This course is especially relevant and timely in the context of regimes of conformity, compliance, and oppression, and an assault on educational freedoms. The course explores freedom and responsibility with regard to education, minds, cultures, and environments. An exclusively individualistic focus that ignores our actions in/with the world can sustain self-centeredness and a solely collectivistic focus that disregards our inner workings can perpetuate incoherent motivations, assumptions, and consequences. Therefore, this course attends to and interrogates both the 'outer world' and the 'world within'. We will engage in experiential activities, shared inquiry, research in action, and contemplative dialogue. It is intentional and likely that the course leaves us with enduring questions rather than answers. Skeptical of both individual affirmation and cultural reification we consider what it means to challenge who we are, what we are with each other, and how we live in and affect the world. In these senses, the course explores the interrelationship of freedom and responsibility.
Min. Credits: 3.0
Credit Basis: Semester credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
Method(s): Online (asynchronous),Online Meeting (synchronous)
Course Type Education

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