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(Special Topics Course/Lecture Series)

Education 496-4

Summer Session ?

Instructor: ?

Dr. S. C. deCa8tell

July 3– August 10, 1990

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Office:

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MPX 8639

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291-3395,291-3627

12:30-2:20 Lecture (MPX 7618)

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Office Hours: By Appointment

2:30-4:20 Seminar (MPX 7610)

Unesco has declared 1990 to be the "International Year of Literacy", so this

seems an appropriate time for educators to reflect on the scope and the limits of

literacy in a "post-literate" culture. The term "post-literate" culture was coined to

refer to a culture which is profoundly and irretrievably affected by literacy, but

which in many ways, in business, in production, in social and political life, and

indeed in our very perception of self, is moving beyond literate communications

and is now increasingly becoming dependent on electronic technologies of

information-production and transmission.

The main lecture series will examine the significance of "literacy" today, from

the standpoint of the relationship(s) between technologies of communication and

forms of thought. We'll focus on the points of transition from voice to text, and from

text to image. Scholars from a range of disciplines—Education, Communications

and Cultural Studies, History, English, Sociology/Anthropology, and Computer

Science will provide an overview of contemporary directions for literacy theory and

research; seminars following the public lectures will consider the implications–and

applications–of these ideas to current educational policy and practice.

PREREQUISITES:

60 credit hours or permission of instructor. This course can

count as an elective in the Literacy Certificate Programme

READINGS:

On reserve in the library and Educational Technology Center.

ASSIGNMENTS:

(Voice)(Text)

(Image)

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Video

Journal:

Oral Exam

Project

Analysis

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of Lectures

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331/3%

331/3%

331/3%

LECTURES BY

* Andrew Ross (No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture)

* Constance Penley (The Future of an Illusion)

Carolyn Marvin (When Old Technologies Were New)

Dorothy Smith (The Ever

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day World as Problematic)

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Kieran Egan, Sut Jhally, John Willinsky, Maxine Greene, and Others

* Co-sponsored by the Summer Institute of the School for the Contemporary Arts

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SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:

July 3

Kieran Egan

"Literacy and the Oral

Simon Fraser University

Foundations of Education"

(Education)

July 5

Andrew Ross

"Ballots, Bullets and Batman:

Princeton University

Can Cultural Studies Do The

(English)

Right thing?"

July 5

Constance Penley

"Pee Wee and Pedagogy"

University of Rochester

(English & Film Studies)

July 10

Jerry Zaslove

"The Text that Cannot Speak or See:

Simon Fraser University

Devaluing the Oral and Visual in

(English)

Aesthetic Culture"

July 10

Herbert Grabes

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in

(Germany)

19th Century England"

July 12

Carolyn Marvin

"The Body of the Text: Literacy's

University of Pennsylvania

Corporeal Constant"

(Annenberg School of Comm.)

July 17

Dorothy Smith, OISE

July 19

Barry Duncan

"Coping with the Media Blitz:

Association for Media Literacy

Media Literacy in the Classroom"

Toronto, Ontario

July 24

Ruth Jonathan

"Literacy and the Training Agency"

University of Edinburgh

(Department of Education)

July 26

Sut Jhally

"Image-Based Culture: Advertising

University of Mass. - Amherst

and Popular Culture"

(Communications)

July 31

Mary Bryson

Boob-Tube, Third Eye or Proteus of

University of British Columbia

Machines: Re-thinking Educational

(Education)

Technology for the Year 2000

July 31

Gerri Sinclair

Down the Digital Rabbit-Hole, or "What's

Simon Fraser University

the Use of a Book Without Pictures or

Conversation?"

August 2

Evan Alderson

"The Body as a Site of Culture"

Simon Fraser University

(School for the Contemporary Arts)

August 2

Stephen Smith

"Physical Culture:

Simon Fraser University

The Embodiment of Technology"

(Education)

August 7

Maxine Greene

The Insistent Presence: Resisting

Columbia University

Bnicolage

(Education)

August 9

John Willmsky

"Opening up the Text:

University of Calgary

Literacy in the Post-Modern

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Classroom"