I think Classics might be the one place it's not so useful. Certainly other languages it's helpful, so thinking about useful vocab rather than state mandated vocab. Not knowing the expression in french for switching on a kettle was embarrassing.
And with history, thinking about history from the PoV of where we stand rather than the white-male-patriarchal model would be the way forward in Freire's terms, affirming that we do in fact have a history worth studying.
In Psychology - oh boy. It would open up a mammoth can of worms, because it would be looking at the world we see around us, and seeing psychology as a social construct, rather than a defined discipline/science.
Engineering - folk engineering, rules of thumb. Looking at stuff like the Minsters and how there are ways of constructing stuff that lasts without needing expensive computer software. Teaching the first principles, but from a different PoV.
I suppose in some sense, in classics, it's teaching it from a feminist PoV for an all-women group (Classical Barbie is a brilliant example), or encouraging scholarship based on koine or whatever. It's difficult in the USA where there isn't a classical (Roman-Greek) civilisation to draw on. Maybe it's about redefining Classics as being the study of all civilisations extant at that time and seeing how different cultures coped with the same problems.
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Date: 2010-03-14 07:39 pm (UTC)And with history, thinking about history from the PoV of where we stand rather than the white-male-patriarchal model would be the way forward in Freire's terms, affirming that we do in fact have a history worth studying.
In Psychology - oh boy. It would open up a mammoth can of worms, because it would be looking at the world we see around us, and seeing psychology as a social construct, rather than a defined discipline/science.
Engineering - folk engineering, rules of thumb. Looking at stuff like the Minsters and how there are ways of constructing stuff that lasts without needing expensive computer software. Teaching the first principles, but from a different PoV.
I suppose in some sense, in classics, it's teaching it from a feminist PoV for an all-women group (Classical Barbie is a brilliant example), or encouraging scholarship based on koine or whatever. It's difficult in the USA where there isn't a classical (Roman-Greek) civilisation to draw on. Maybe it's about redefining Classics as being the study of all civilisations extant at that time and seeing how different cultures coped with the same problems.
I'm thinking out loud here.