McNamee & Miller:
1. I had a professor who once told me they left their job as a teacher because it was "power trip."
Sit, Stand, Raise your hand--it was too easy. While keeping in mind the ideologies of inequality presented in the text, how would you respond to this professor?
2. The text sparked the memory of my Posse+ Retreat this Spring with the topic "Millennials" that I would like to share with you all. "Every 20 years of so a new generation emerges and challenges, in one way or another, the cultural, social and political status quo." At the retreat we were posed this questions below. Keep in mind McNamee and Miller's ideas of downsizing the American Dream and ideas of individualism & capitalism:
You’ve come of age in an unstable world. Columbine. The 2000 election.
9/11. Terror. War. Shrinking job market. Rising expectations. Google. Gaga. Idol.
Obama. Change has been your norm. Seven years ago Facebook was called
Facemash. Six years ago the first Youtube video hadn’t been uploaded. Three
years ago Twitter was still a glimmer in a programmer’s eye. Fresher. Cooler.
Sleeker. Smaller. Easier. Yet with each new app, it becomes harder to pause to ask
a few simple, yet timeless questions:
* Will you spark change or go with the flow?
* Will you lead a life you choose or a life that’s been chosen for you?
* What do you believe in and care about?
Here's a clip that was sent before the retreat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKgc2p-TufQ&feature=player_embedded
Lareau
1. We are presented with Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital on page 80. "His point is to suggest that culture (in the broadest sense of the term) can become a power resouce." Thinking back to what Prof. Grandson has mentioned briefly, that "oppression can turn into strength," how do you plan on working with your students to finding that strength and resource (in any context: history, math, science, etc)?
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