Carlos Alberto Torres asked the questions, "what has changed and what has stayed the same in the years since the first and second addition of this book?" Even though I have only taught for three years, it is interesting to ask myself the same question: How has the curriculum in your classroom changed since you first began teaching?
Which thesis statement do you agree and disagree with the most? Thesis 1: Schooling justifies and reproduces inequalities in capitalist societies. Thesis 2: Schooling reproduces authoritarian, classist, racist, homophobic, and patriarchal relationships in capitalist societies. Thesis 3: Schooling and knowledge are unable to counteract the commodification of social relationships because the capitalist culture creates nothing by a culture of consumption. Thesis 4: In some instances, schooling is viewed as a 'babysitting service' for children and youth, allowing parents freedom from care of them from the few hours they are at a learning site.
Torres states that 'schools have lost their edge as state instruments acting in locus parenti helping children and youth to become morally socialized and cultivated in the disciplines of the spirit at the body' (52). Do you agree that schools have lost their edge? Why or why not?
The statement on page 55 "The schools are losing relevance..." How do you feel as a teaching reading this statement?
On page 59, Torres asks many difficult questions that begin with "What difference do schools make if...?" Create your own question to add to this list that he has already generated.
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