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A Summer Institute in Education 2012 seminar

at University of British Columbias Okanagan campus


EDST 497 D
July 9 - 13, 2012
facilitated by
Clay McLeod,
Grade 4 teacher at South Kelowna Elementary
http://mistermcleod.weebly.com/
and consultant
www.continuumconsulting.ca
Learn Intellectual Self-Defence:
A SIE 2012 Seminar Presented by Clay McLeod, LL.B., B.Ed., M.A.(Ed.)
www.continuumconsulting.ca or http://members.shaw.ca/claymcleod
& http://mistermcleod.weebly.com/
@claymcleod1969 on Twitter

A wiki (collaborative on-line space) related to this seminar


can be found on-line at
http://mindfurniture.pbworks.com/

In this seminar, you will:


demonstrate a basic understanding of Noam Chomsky and Edward S.
Hermans propaganda model and Naomi Kleins shock doctrine theory;
apply critical thinking skills - including questioning, comparing, summarizing,
analyzing, evaluating, connecting, identifying implications, and drawing
conclusions - to a variety of issues relating to history, current events, and
politics;
justify and defend, with evidence and logic, coherent perspectives on issues
discussed and explored in class and between classes; and
demonstrate an understanding of how the development of these
understandings and skills can be facilitated in the classroom.

Will you choose the red pill or the blue pill?


Some Ideas to Consider
Media messages include propaganda designed to control thought (even, and
perhaps especially, in democracy).
Media are businesses, selling a product ; their product is audiences (you), and their
customers are other businesses. Given this, whose perspectives do you think are
reflected in media?
The ideology expressed in media messages serves the interests of established
power, helping to maintain and strengthen the power relationships of the status quo.
The worldview reflected by those media messages contains many assumptions and
ideas that make it seem like current power relationships are justified and right.
In this way, the media - and other aspects of culture, including education -
manufactures consent to these power relationships.
Intellectual self-defence is a response to established powers attempt to use media
messages to manufacture your consent to their power; it involves asking questions
about media messages, and it challenges conventional beliefs that allow social
injustice to exist.
Intellectual self-defence serves to protect citizens of democracy from the
manipulation and thought control of powerful elites who use media to pursue their
agendas.
Critical consciousness (the goal of practicing intellectual self-defence) is about
perceiving social injustice and then taking action to create social justice.
Day 1: Monday, July 9, 2012

Introduction to Intellectual Self-Defence:


The Propaganda Model and How Media Functions and
Performs

Day 2: Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Revealing and Questioning Assumptions:


How has Established Power Arranged the Furniture of Our Minds
to Make the Status Quo Seem Natural and Justified?

Day 3: Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Paradigm Shift and Creating New Frameworks:


Learning to Arrange the Furniture of Our Minds
Ourselves

Day 4: Thursday, July 12, 2012

New Frameworks and Counter Hegemony:


Using Intellectual Self-Defence and Critical
Consciousness to Work Towards Social Justice

Day 5: Friday, July 13, 2012

Hope for the Future:


Implementing Intellectual Self-Defence in Your
Classroom

Links and resources relating to these topics and


themes can be found on the seminars wiki at
http://mindfurniture.pbworks.com/. The conversation
can continue there between sessions. Depending on
the learning needs and aspirations of participants,
these topics and themes may be altered.
TM
Political Compass

Where do you belong on


the Political CompassTM?

Take the quiz at


www.politicalcompass.org

With Names of Historical Figures & Alternate Conceptions of


Canadian Parties the Political Spectrum
Snowball Notes (An assumption that common
media messages help to promote and propagate)
Doodle for meaning

Give One/Get One Notes (Questions one can ask


about media messages that may be propaganda)
Doodle for meaning
Card Stack and Shuffle Notes (Ideas for
developing intellectual self-defence and critical
consciousness in the classroom)

Doodle for meaning

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