week 1 introduction and LSS 2019 Seminar 1.pptx

schooled society

1. Seminar 1: Introduction to Module Assessments & Genres of Writing Alison Brady Teaching Fellow and PhD Candidate UCL Institute of Education [email protected]

2. Introductions Introduce yourself to your neighbour ! You might like to talk about… Where you are from What kind of school you went to What one ‘good way’ schooling has impacted upon your life And what one ‘bad way’ it has impacted upon your life

3. Now join another pair to make a group of four Discuss … How would your life have been different if there was no school? How might this be better? How might it be worse? What might you have done instead? In what ways do you think school effects aspects of individual life (e.g. family, friends etc.)? And in what ways do schools effect society more broadly (e.g. the economy, politics, nationhood etc.)? Introductions

4. Living in a Schooled Society Any questions about the lecture today? What do you think this module is about? What kinds of things do you think you might look at?

5. Living in a Schooled Society Often other disciplines look at the concept of ‘education’ or ‘schools’ through disciplinary perspectives e .g. Philosophy of Education = considers what ‘schooling’ is or what makes a ‘school’ a ‘school’; what makes a ‘good school’; what should a school aim to achieve; what does a schooled person ‘look like’ etc. i.e. through using philosophical modes of questions, asking what constitutes education and its various components How might this module be different?

6. Living in a Schooled Society Start from your own experiences of ‘being schooled’ Think about how ‘being schooled’ has impacted upon your life (e.g. your family, relationships, work, political values etc.) Think more generally about a ‘schooled society’ – i.e. a society where most people are ‘schooled’ How does this impact have, then, on society more broadly? (e.g. our social understanding of family, relationships, work, politics etc.) This involves identifying broader patterns that appear in your own life, but also in society at large This requires reflecting on your individual experience and doing readings/engaging with theories/engaging with each other so that we can think about these experiences on a broader level

7. The “popular education spiral”

8. Living in a Schooled Society Key themes from today’s lecture: What can you remember about them? Discuss in groups. The education revolution The rise of a schooled society The different meanings of education Institutionalist, political economy or broad-based ways of thinking about education in society Thinking about the two-way relationships between education and society Student impact on politics in a schooled society

9. In your group, write down a list of all of the kinds of writing that you have done in your life up until now….

10. In this module, we will ask you to do three different kinds of writing: A report A piece of reflective writing A written response to other students’ work Most modules on the BA Education Studies programme will ask you to write an essay. What’s the difference between a report and an essay? Why write a report instead of an essay?

11. In this module, we will ask you to do three different kinds of writing: A report A piece of reflective writing A written response to other students’ work What is reflective writing? How is it different from writing essays and reports?

12. Reflective writing Reflection is …. The action or process of thinking carefully or deeply about a particular subject, typically involving influence from one’s past life and experiences. Oxford English Dictionary (2012)

13. The trouble with many of us, and with our culture as a whole, is that we don’t take the time to ‘relate’, to connect publicly and formally but meaningfully with others. We don’t take the time to meet one to one with others, to hear their interests and dreams and fears, to understand why people do what they do or don’t do what they don’t do.