IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE END OF THE SEMESTER

*********TOMORROW'S CLASS IS CANCELED********** (Wednesday APRIL 30)

Unfortunately, I have to cancel tomorrow's class, so our class meetings are now officially over.  We do not have class on Monday, May 5.  Before you work on your final essay, you should read and analyze Freire's "The Banking Concept of Education".  Here, again, is the link to that essay:

http://learning.writing101.net/wp-content/readings/freire_the_banking_concept_of_education.pdf

For your final essay, you will be writing an educational autobiography, which will be in letter form.  You will begin with "Dear Professor Carr" (or Dr. Carr, or Karen) and go on to write an in-depth examination of your educational history.  This should not be a simple chronology but, rather, an extensive look at the ways you were taught to think about learning, education, and the process of making meaning from/for your lives.  

You must refer to the articles that we have read for this section, which are found in the "Schooling" section of the textbook.  You must also work extensively with Freire's essay, by discussing the extent to which the "banking concept" was the pedagogical method employed by your teachers.  

The essay is due, via email, by Monday, May 12 at noon.

kcarr@ric.edu

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Reading for Monday, April  14

Paolo Freire -- "The Banking Concept of Education"

http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html

there is no new reading for tomorrow, april 7.  we will be using your interviews in class, so make sure to have them with you.

for monday, april 7

interview and essay

the last step of the process before the essay is to conduct an interview with your parent(s), or the people who you live with who bought/rented your house/apartment.

interview questions . . .these are preliminary questions. feel free to add you own. the aim here is to go beyond simple answers and to work to engage the person in a conversation:

when, exactly, did you move here?

what made you choose this neighborhood?

what made you choose this particular house/apartment?

what do you like about the neighborhood?

what do you dislike about the neighborhood?

would you say that the house itself or the neighborhood is your primary reason for being there?

essay due on monday april 14

once you have conducted your interview, take everything you've done for this project -- from your early interviews with classmates about neighborhood, to your walking tour, to your search for public art -- and create an essay in which you work out an analysis of place and space, and the role it plays in shaping identity. this essay needs to examine space and place in considerable depth.