The Flipped Classroom - Lecture 5/10/2016

Traditional teaching methods - embeds hierarchy, before you even start to learn you are first told that you are below someone else - teacher

• Jacques Ranciere - The Ignorant Schoolmaster - application to education

60s origins - disaffected generation that wanted a new world - student occupation of French universities May 1968 

- anti authoritarian & radical - education for all & state funded students 

Students used their creative skills to further the revolution - posters etc

Visual Communication is a WEAPON - doesn't belong in a gallery, belongs out in the world - you can actually buy these prints now, the revolution failed socially but has a legacy in cultural memory

"sous le paves,  la plage" - "under the paving stones, the beach"

We are controlled mentally as much as we are controlled by threat of punishment

Ranciere rebelled against Althusser, his tutor - who was he to tell students they needed him - telling other people how to be free - 'every theory of education is committed to preserving the power it brings to light'

System keeps you in your place - why can't a "worker" want to be more than their social definition 

- Links to The Functionist Council - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Functionist_Council

Everything is predetermined - feelings/emotions/responses

- self stratifying - people participate and try to label and create a hierarchy that doesn't exist and doesn't need to exist

Joseph Jacotot - gave students French and Flemish copies of a book & left them to it alone - they became able to figure French out alone - it shouldn't be surprising but we expect it to be hard because we are conditioned to think it won't work if it doesn't conform. Everyone teaches themselves about language and the world.

There is no divide - we don't need them, they need us to turn up and not riot so that they get paid.

• Society of contempt - people are individualist and judgemental - The lecturer who thinks he is better is equally wrong and ignorant as the too cool for school student
• University fees = the commodification of knowledge

We are customers of our universities - our education is the equivalent of a sofa or a washing machine or a bag of haribo

Stultification - Repression 

Self Education - Emancipation