Dialogue: the status of "experience" in working-class cultural studies.(Column)

From: Radical Teacher | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

CLASS PRIVILEGE, OPPRESSION, AND THE WORLD IN THE CLASSROOM

By Erin Smith

Lately, I have been thinking about the place of experience in a student-centered classroom. The personal histories and current preoccupations of students are a powerful motivator of learning, but they also limit and constrain what kinds of knowledge are possible.

For five years, I have been teaching an upper-level undergraduate course called Gender & Education at night at the University of Texas at Dallas. The course examines the ways educational institutions both empower individuals and ...

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