Education · Boston College
As products of schooling, we find it natural, invisible, inevitable. And yet, modern mass schooling is a relatively recent and-with a little distance-rather strange invention. To defamiliarize this peculiar institution, this course weighs the affordances and limitations of formal and informal education, considers the historical forces that led to the rise of compulsory schooling, and explores the felt experience of being schooled. Through reading and discussion of primary texts in the social sciences and humanities, we examine the official purposes and hidden curriculum of schools, asking ques
