A Gallery of Testimonials A Gallery of Testimonials The Industrial Revolution – Industrialization Capitalism and Globalization MODULE 1 From the Industrial Revolution to the Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism Manchester: A Case Study in European History

WHAT AND HOW? Task: To generate a testimonial gallery of scholars, thinkers and writers who dealt with the problem discussed Objectives:  to generate of a multimedia archive  to focus on different the thinkers’ ideas about economic and social transformation processes ( The Industrial Revolution - Industrialization Capitalism and Globalization )  to create synthesis in the English language Materials: (citare le fonti specifiche texts, resources, videos, pictures, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site) Text types analysed: testi di studio, Articoli, saggi Methodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

WHY? Language skills: speaking, reading, writing, discussing, interacting, public speaking Study Skills and Knowledge: structure of argumentative text, use of literary code, textual structural analysis, selection of testimonials, quotations,connection with suitable context study of resources, spoken and written production, interaction ICT skills: Office (.doc,.ppt), Internet surfing, pdf…, work with images, Microsoft Picture Management) What to do with the language  Competence:Use it to Generate a testimonial gallery

Testimonials  Alexis de Tocqueville  Charles Dickens  Karl Heinrich Marx  Joseph Alois Schumpeter  Wiston Churchill  Thomas Sowell  Jeanette Winterson

Alexis de Tocqueville ( ) French Political thinker and historian  Liberal position about democracy Reference text: Journey to England and Ireland Focus: Manchester Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels Critical thinking: alienation, exploitation, industrialization,, inequal distribution of wealth, bad working condition, double nature of capitalism,utilitarism

Charles Dickens ( ) English Victorian novelist  remarkable characters  telling technique  symbolic portrait of social class contrast Reference text: Hard Times  Utilitarianism Focus: CoketownCoketown Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, L. Zingales, Critical thinking: alienation, exploitation, industrialization, facts versus fancy, wealth versus well-being, working class - capitalists

German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist  Critical of his contemporary economy, politic, society and culture Reference text: Das Kapital Focus: Capitalism Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, Luigi Zingales Critical thinking:industrialization,, unequal distribution of wealth, money creates wealth Karl Heinrich Marx ( )

Joseph Alois Schumpeter ( ) An Austrian American economist and political scientist.  Popularized "creative destruction" in economics Reference text: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Focus: Capitalism Cross cultural references: K. Marx, L. Zingales, R. Bellofiore Critical thinking: industrialization, the European financial situation, creative destruction

British Conservative Politician  statesman and orator, Nobel Prize for Literature  twice Prime Minister (1940–45 and 1951–55)  officer in the British Army  historian, writer, artist  he received the Nobel Prize in Literature Reference: Sir W. Churchill QuotesSir W. Churchill Quotes Focus : CapitalismCapitalism Cross cultural references: powerful command of the English language, literature Critical thinking: capitalism, socialism, blessing, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class, army Winston Churchill ( )

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author  conservative thinker of the late 20th century  America's leading philosopher  seminal study on the role of Race in history  explain the principles underlying modern economics  he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a conservative and libertarian perspective.laissez-faire  opposes Marxism, Reference text : Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville, A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, F. A. Hayek, Joseph SchumpeterMilton FriedmanGeorge StiglerF. A. HayekJoseph Schumpeter Critical thinking: pushiness, justice and equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity Thomas Sowell (1930)

Contemporary English Writer  adopted by Pentecostal parents  boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, sexual identities Reference text: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Focus: ManchesterManchester Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, C. Dickens Critical thinking: industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class – capitalists, process of change, contradictions inside society. Jeanette Winterson (1959)

SKILLS - STUDY PRACTICE FEED-BACK Learning skills  reading,  manipulating differentstext types  acquiring a specific vocabulary  comprehension,  textual analysis,  group discussion,  Selection skills,  critical thinking,  gathering of ideas,  planning,  drafting,  redrafting,  peer proof reading,  image selection,  reorganizing,  generating a.ppt presentation  generating a.pdf document  public speaking

FEEDBACK 1. What you have learnt?  The problems of capitalism and European’s current economic and social situation  Reading a Postmodern Novel  Studying essays and argumentative text about the problems  Studying and interpreting qiuotations from testimonial’s works  interacting in a workgroup  Selecting relevant data  Synthesizing concepts  Writing in English  Creating a.ppt presentaton 2. What could be improved?  Our comunication skills, precision, time organization 3. Level of appreciation and usefullness of workshop:  The work useful to learn new details about economy  Learning together offers deeper insights  Occasion to study and share discussion  Reading and speaking in English with a real purpose

WORKSHOP 6 CREDITS  BALDO Sara  MONGERA Enrico  MONTANARI Veronica  TALIAN Lorenzo  ZANUTTA Riccardo