EDUC-6460: Pedagogy, Power, & Control

Participants in this course will examine issues of control and coercion within educational contexts and will pinpoint ways that both teachers and students can subvert conventional power dynamics in the classroom. Using cross-disciplinary scholars such as Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, Angela Davis, and Michelle Fine to guide our inquiry, we will explore a variety of confining spaces: public schools, the standardized testing movement, segregated Special Education settings, the prison classroom, and higher education, among others. We will examine how power operates within these settings and how educators both perpetuate and resist traditional notions of authority. Together we will both scrutinize relations of control inherent in educational settings and we will devise ways to challenge and destabilize them in order to create more just, reciprocal, democratic classrooms.
Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Seattle
Method(s): Classroom
Faculty Consent Required: N
Program Approval Required: N
Course Type Education