Description
The discourse on pedagogy assumes three things: there is something to teach (knowledge), there is someone to teach it (faculty) and that there is someone to teach it to (students). These assumptions produce various forms of social interdependency in what become institutions for education. We will seek to understand these institutions by surveying some techniques of legitimation that subtend the educational acts they host. Readings will explore the mechanics of interdependencies found in a few institutional types. Based on our discussions, students will select objects drawn from history, their experience, or of their own imagination to present in research workshops using prescribed writing formats.