weekly breakdown of readings

Week One Unit One: Conflicting Sociological Perspectives

MON. JULY 6 Introduction, Course Outline, Purposes and Requirements.

TUES. JULY 7 Functionalism: Schooling for Status Attainment, Role Allocation, and Social Integration?

Parsons, T. (1959). "The School as a Social Class System and Some of its Functions in American Society", Harvard Educational Review 29 (4): 297-318.

WED. JULY 8 Conflict, Reproduction Theories: Schooling for the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor?

**Bowles, S. (1977). "Unequal Education and the Reproduction of Labor" in Karabel and Halsey (Eds.), Power and Ideology in Education.Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 137-152.

THURS. JULY 9 Transformation Theories: Schooling as the Lived and Commodified Culture.

Apple, M. W. (1983). "Ideology and Practice in Schooling: A Political and Conceptual Introduction", in Apple, M. W. and Weis, L. (Eds.) Ideology and Practice in Schooling. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp..

Video: "The Pinks and the Blues".

FRI. JULY 10 Unit Two: The Popular Cultural Texts and Contexts of Schooling.

MTV, Television, Advertising, Rock Music, and Mass Media as Social Texts.

Larson, M. and Ellsworth, E. (1987). "Critical Media Analysis, Radical Pedagogy and MTV, Feminist Teacher, pp.1-15.

Read one:**

Frith, S. and McRobbie, A. "Rock and Sexuality" in Dale, R. et. al. (Eds.). Education and the State: Politics, Patriarchy, and Practice. Sussex: Falmer Press, 1981, pp. 97-110.

MON. JULY 13 Classroom Textbooks: Official and Hidden Curricula

Manicom, A. "Ideology and the Multicultural Curriculum: Deconstructing Elementary School Texts" in Young, J. (Ed.) Breaking the Mosaic: Ethnic Identities in Canadian Schooling. Toronto: Garamound Press, 1987, pp. 75-103.

Read both:

2. Thomas, B. "Anti-racist Education: A Response to Manicom", in Young, J. Breaking the Mosaic: Ethnic Identities in Canada, pp. 104-107.

TUES. JULY 14 Classroom Texts (Con't).

**Stanley, T. "White Supremacy and the Rhetoric of Educational Indoctrination" in Mangen, J. A. (Ed.). Making Imperial Mentalities: Socialization and British Columbia. New York: Manchester University Press, 1990, 202-220.

WED. JULY 15 ADOLESCENCE AS IDEOLOGY: YOUNG WOMEN'S LEISURE READING

Christian-Smith, L. "Texts, Curriculum, and Politics: Adolescent Romance Fiction and Its Readers", unpublished AERA paper, 1987.

JULY 16 Thurs. Youth Subcultures In and Out of School

**Roman, L.G. (1988)."Intimacy, Labor, and Class: Ideologies of Feminine Sexuality in the Punk Slam Dance" in L. G. Roman and L. C. Christian-Smith with E. Ellsworth (Eds.). Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture. Falmer: Sussex, pp. 143-184.

Video: "Punk: Private and Public Subculture"

FRI. JULY 17 Youth Subcultures in and Out of School (con't)

1. R. Patrick Solomon, "Dropping Out of Academics: Black Youth and the Sports Subculture in a Cross-National Perspective" in Weis, L. et. al. (Eds.). Dropouts from School: Issues, Dilemmas, and Solutions. New York: SUNY Press, 1989, pp. 79-96.

Read both:

2. Kelly, D. "Ten Myths About Drop-Outs," UBC Reports, June 18, 1992.

Take home questions for essay exam. Students are to receive questions from instructor.

MON. JULY 20 Schooling and the Reproduction of Gender Specific Notions of "Skill": From School to Paid and Unpaid Labor

1. Gaskell, J. (1992). "Inside the Business Classroom", chpt. 5 from Gender Matters from School to Work, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Read one: 2. Valli, L. (1983) Becoming Clerical Workers: Business Education and the Culture of Femininity" in Apple, M.W. and Weis, L. Ideology and Practice in Schooling.

Video: "The Wilmar Eight" or "Lads On the Dole But Not in the Kitchen", produced in conjunction with Paul Willis's project on the effects of unemployment among working class male youth in relation to their continued choice not to take up domestic labor.

TUES. JULY 21 Rethinking the Transition of Youth from School to Adulthood: Ideologies of Students "At Risk"

1. Lutrell, W. (1989). "Working Class Women's Ways of Knowing: Effects of Gender, Race, and Class", Sociology of Education 62 (Jan.), : 33-46.

Video: "Streetwise"

WED. JULY 22 Deskilling, Reskilling, and the Rationalization of Teachers' Labor

Apple, M.W. and Weis, L. "Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control" in Apple and Weis, Ideology and Practice in Schooling.

THURS. JULY 23 The Possibilities for and Limits on Reflective Teaching within Intensified Working Conditions.

**McNeil, L. (1983)."Defensive Teaching and Classroom Control" in M.W. Apple and L. Weis (Eds.). Ideology and Practice in Schooling.

FRI. JULY 24 Teacher Burn-Out or Burn Up?

Boston Women's Teachers' Group (Freedman, S., Jackson, J., and Boles, K., "Teaching: An Imperilled `Profession'" in L. Shulman, G. Sykes (Eds.). Handbook of Teaching and Policy. New York: Longman, 1983, pp. 261-299.

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