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SUMMER INSTITUTE TEACHER EDUCATION - S.I.T.E.
SIMON FRASER IJN1VERSITY
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Education 3884?
SPECIAL TOPICS: CULTURAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION
Regular Summer Semester, 1990
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Instructor:
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Michael Hoechsmann
May 7 - August 3
Thursdays
5:30 - 9:20 p.m.
Location: TBA
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit. Educ. 240 recommended.
OVERVIEW
In 1987, two books on education soared to the top of the non-fiction best sellers
list. The immense impact of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
and E.D. Hirsch's Cultural Literac
y
is symbolic of the return of the question of
cultural competence to definitions of literacy. In this context, it is important
for educators to question received notions of 'culture', to challenge the notion
that there is an educational ideal, the Arnoldian conception of the 'best of what
has been thought and said'.
The intention of this course is to read Bloom and Hirsch against the backdrop
of some of the key theoretical texts of the British Cultural Studies tradition.
British Cultural Studies initially developed out of adult education where
scholars such as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson
were confronted with the realities of working people's lives and culture. From
an initial notion of culture as "whole ways of life," this tradition went on to
privilege empirical studies of 'lived cultures'.
The course is designed as a seminar. Hence, it will be the responsibility of
students to prepare thoroughly, in order that in-class discussions will be
informed and lively.
REQUIRED TEXTS
E.D. Hirsch Cultural Literacy
Dick Hebdige Subcultures: The Meaning of Style
and articles on reserve
RECOMMENDED:
Simonson/Walker, Multi-Cultural Literacy
EVALUATION:
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Class preparation & participation
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20%
Presentation of supplementary article
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20%
Mid-term quiz
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20%
Final paper ?
40%
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Reading List
Week 1:
Penley "Teaching in Your Sleep"
Week 2:
Bloom & Hirsch - excerpts
Week 3:
Hall "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"
Williams "Marxism & Culture
Williams "Culture"
Week 4:
Althusser "Ideology & Ideological State Apparatuses"
Week 5:
Gramsci - excerpts from Prison Notebooks
Week 6:
Hebdige - Subcultures
Week 7:
McRobbie "Settling accounts with Subcultures"
Willis "The Class Significance of School Counter
Cultures"
Week 8:
Barrett Intro - Women's Oppression Today
Radway Intro - Reading the Romance
Week 9:
Willis "Sexual Politics"
Ross - excerpt from No Respect
Week 10:
Levine - "Shakespeare in America"
Parker - "Where do English Departments Come From?"
Week 11:
Excerpts from Multi-Cultural Literacy
Week 12-13:
Hirsch Cultural Literacy
