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Ideas about what education is, what purposes it should serve, and how it should be structured are closely entwined with ideas of what a society is and how it functions. This intensive, 2 week course provides an introduction to key educational philosophers, and considers their impacts on the history of education and childhood.

12-Hour Workshop: East China Normal University Nov. 25-27, 2013

Day One

First Unit (3 hours)

• Hour One - Introductions and backgrounds/basics for the course

• Hour Two - Who was Klaus Mollenhauer and what is Forgotten Connections?
  • Reading: selected pages from the translator's introduction xxi - xlv
  • Documentary: Teachers in Transition (A.Kluge, 1963; 11 min)

Second Unit (3 hours)

• Hour One - Chapter 2: Presentation
  • Reading: A picture is worth a thousand words: the origins of an educational barrier pp. 24-33

• Hour Two - Chapter 3: Representation
  • Documentary: The Story of the Weeping Camel (segments from) (Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni; 93 min 2003)

Day Two

Third Unit (3 hours)

• Hour One - Chapters 4-5: Bildsamkeit & Self-Activity
  • Reading: Pestalozzi: designing the educational realm pp. 49-54
  • Reading: Narratives of relation and pedagogical engagement 72-75

• Hour Two - Chapters 4-5: Bildsamkeit & Self-Activity con't
  • Reading: Self-Activity Walking 95-103
  • Documentary: Être et Avoir; To be and to have (segments from) (Nicolas Philibert; 104 min. (2002))

Fourth Unit (3 hours)

• Hour One - Chapter 6: Identity
  • The discovery of the self / the self-active individual 104-114

• Hour Two - Chapter 6: Identity, con't
  • Reading: The inner and the outer pp. 118-123
  • Documentary/Film: To be decided

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