FINAL EXAM Flashcards
(W9)
What power dynamics can we read in each of the “nation as family” models?
- What is the role of citizens and wht does citizenship eduction look like in each model?
Strict Father:
- Obedience, authority
- Father as leader & moral authority
- Father must be strict bc evil lurks
- Painful punishment necessary for obedience
Nurturant Parent:
- All gendered parents responsible for nurturing relationships
- Empathy & responsibility amongst all
- Empowerment of communities more important than individual
- Responsibility learned from receiving care
- Discipline takes shape in the form of limits
(W9)
If metaphors & prototypes shape our understandings of ourselves in unconscious ways, wht does this mean for citizenship education?
This means we must be aware of how metaphors and prototypes affect our judgements and how we perceive things to be. This also means that citizenship cannot be fully taught through explicit instruction, but rather is an ongoing process built through inquiry, conversations, and re-defining what citizenship looks like to students. This abstract way of learning citizenship is hard to measure when compared to standardized testing.
(W10)
What is civic efficacy?
- Civic efficacy: supports young people in standing up for what they believe in– knowing their actions can have an impact
- A sense of agency
- Adults can create barriers for children when we don’t give them these opportunities
(W10)
What makes democratic teaching complicated to achieve?
- As a system, education resists democratic teaching because this type of learning is hard to keep track of. It is hard to quantify what this looks like
- The teacher is supporting but the outcome is in the control of the students, but this is hard to measure as opposed to standardized testing
(W10)
Wht does the salad girls teach us abt social policy?
Social policy doesn’t come from nowhere, it comes from ppl who have civic efficacy
In the reading, the salad girls, Mrs. C encouraged the girls to turn this problem into an inquiry that they could aim to find a solution
Wht is Neoliberalism?
Free market, control over economic/social factors from the public of private sectors
(W13)
Week 13 summary pts
Analyzing media allows individuals to collect important and current information regarding society & critically analyze & question it as well as power
Media equips individuals for their involvement in democracy and democratic matters in regard to their surroundings and society
Breaking down media gives individuals skills to break down power and justice structures and influences
Engaged citizens must understand the relationship between personal and social identity, and media as a source for community, and democracy
(W13)
Wht are the 4 diff types of literacy competencies?
Participatory:
- Responsible, mindful, action tht sees connection b/w daily activity & social change
Collaborative:
- Connections to large group of interested peers
Expressive Media:
- Posting/sharing is engaging in a narrative reflective on the content of your voice
Critical:
- Critically view/engage w/ media messages– individually & societally
(W13)
Wht is the role of school systems in teaching children media literacy, especially regarding citizenship?
Through “deconstructing media texts” students may also be engaged in deconstructing injustices & putting their voice to these injustices
- engaging in co-learning
- students are invited to collaborate & identify issues in their communities, research these issues using critical analysis of media to raise awareness and prompt political action
(W14)
Week 14 summary pts
Bobbitt’s (2002) observations suggest that citizens’ identity development has more to do with economic-based relationships and connections than with geographic commonality. People who identify with different economic-based social identities may be required to work together if they desire to renegotiate and shift their allegiances to various individuals and networks
After Katniss becomes a tribute, her commitment to her family and community sustains her through the cross-country journey to the Capitol and the preparation, training, and performance required for the Games.
(W14)
In wht ways does Katniss’s comitment to her family & community connect to the idea of economic based identity development?
- This connects to economic-based identity development because Katniss is connected to her community and family through a shared economic status– that is, they are poor and food is scarce.
- Because of this connection and the depth of the relationships b/w Katniss & her fam/community, she feels a sense of obligation to them.
- “ppl who identify w/ diff economic-based identities may be required to work together if they desire to renegotiate and shift their allegiances
- Katniss aims to renegotiate with her trainers & the rich ppl in order to get food and honor for her community
(W14)
Wht can the Hunger Games offer in discussions around citizenship?
- Teachers today are ineffective in teaching concepts of citizenship and democracy
- Teaching citizenship through art, such as The Hunger Games, may offer opportunity for teachers & students to inspect the nuances of citizenship and democracy in a unique way
(W14)
How does Katniss employ traditional aspects of citizenship (i.e. loyalty), as well as rebellion? And, how might her instances of rebellion also employ aspects of citizenship and democracy?
- Katniss employs traditional aspects of citizenship by being a good citizen and attending the the reaping, and by caring about her community and their needs
- She employs rebellion by hunting in areas that are not allowed and by breaking the rules during the hunger games and teaming up with Peeta at the end, but she does so in ways that reflect citizenship because she wants stop injustices —to provide for and protect her family and also “ruin” the hunger games for rich spectators so that they think twice abt their actions
(W14)
How might we read aspects of sacrifice and justice-oriented citizenship into the narrative of The Hunger Games?
- Katniss sacrifices herself for her sister & is again willing to sacrifice herself with Peeta at the end of the games
- She is attempting to provide a justice-oriented ending
- Katniss also recognizes the sacrifices tht the ppl of district 12 make to benefit the capitol
- Katniss comes to understand how the sacrifice she made for her sister has given her power and how sometimes when we sacrifice in voluntary manners it can help to support other members of the community
(W14)
What does The Hunger Games tell us about the role of the individual in citizenship and democracy?
The role of the individual in citizenship is not always about oneself, but about how one’s actions affect society at large. For Katniss, she has loyalties towards her family and district, but she also recognizes that there are complex systems at play that affect her experiences and that the motives and loyalties of others can change.