EUB102 Teaching in New & Emerging Educational Contexts Engage Week 6: Education & Governance across time

Activity 1: The School then and now Watch this clip from the classic film, Goodbye Mr Chips. It’s Mr Chips’ first day at school and the boys play a prank on him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVXHWqL2pJM&feature=yout u.be Consider the ways in which the modern school is the same as or different from what you see in this video? How is school different from those attended by your parents and grandparents?

Activity 2: Corporal punishment Scene from the Blues Brothers. The Blues Brothers return to the orphanage school where they were brought up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujxDA9VsQG4 Take Myth #2, ‘Schools aren’t about the exercise of power, or about population control, they are simply about giving children an education’. Consider this myth after watching the clip. Are there still elements of this kind of schooling today? What kind of punishment is used in the current classroom?

Activity 3: Mapping contemporary institutional practices Identify and map the different institutions with which you engage or that you encounter over the period of a week (e.g. education institution, church, sporting club, community organisation, government department, bank, health service). What data are collected about you in these institutions?  What are the different categories used?  In what ways are these examples of discipline and surveillance?  What do you think about these practices in relation to the formation of norms and maintaining social order?  What would happen if these categories did not exist?  What do you think should be done differently?

Activity 4: The MySchool website Discuss the relationship between statistics and measurement, discipline and surveillance. Consider the My School website as an instrument of measurement and surveillance: What statistics are gathered? How, and by whom? How do these become mechanisms for discipline and surveillance?

Activity 5: The Panopticon and surveillance Refer to pp.88-89 of Tait’s textbook for a description or read the following https://www.publicationcoach.com/panopticon/ (See also pictures on the next slide) Briefly skim this article as well if you have time. Consider the panoptic practices that are incorporated into the design of educational institutions. What implications do these have for the way we understand the relationship between teachers and students?

Illinois State Penitentiary View from inside Bentham’s Panopticon Illinois State Penitentiary

Activity 6: Additional discussion Watch this clip from the 1985 film Clockwise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znmt3v6Zgq0 Consider the ways in which the organisation of time is a disciplinary practice in schooling. Why are schools important to social regulation? What is the role of ‘information’ in identifying the ‘individual’? How are the ideas of discipline and surveillance related to the formation of social norms?

Activity 7: The Good manners chart Go to the link below and look at the Good Manners chart which used to be displayed in Queensland schools from 1898 onwards http://education.qld.gov.au/library/docs/edhistory/goodmanners.pdf Compare with this contemporary Good Manners chart. https://allgiftsconsidered.com/wp- content/uploads/2019/01/Good_Manners_Chart_Printable.pdf Are there any differences? Has much changed? Consider implications for normalisation and the training of good citizens

Assessment in focus: Are all your ducks in a row Assessment in focus: Are all your ducks in a row? Examine the criteria marking sheet… Look at the FAQs… Questions or comments?

Post workshop activity: Knowledge check Education & Governance Quiz https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfd_3VM9P_CuUrzj fiE9_tcvQfV4EVFRvLMBtc303Y7paLC0g/viewform?usp=sf_link