IDEOLOGY

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IDEOLOGY

• Naturalizes
• Historicizes
• Eternalizes

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NATURALIZES

• ideological structures appear to be natural,
  "according to the order of things"

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NATURAL BEAUTY
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HISTORICIZES

• ideological structures appear to be the logical
  conclusion to an historical development(historiciz
  ation)

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ETERNALIZES

• there is an assumption that now that this
  (natural) state of affairs has been reached,
  things will be that way, barring regression
  (eternalization).

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HISTORY

• Written by people who make history
• Billion Dollar Textbook Industry (10 Companies
  control bulk of books
• Technology tells the history of the companies
  that produce the technology
• Schools as tools

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IDEOLOGY

• Idea
• Ideal

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IDEOLOGY

• What are the assumptions about what is natural,
  just and right?
• The Nexus of Natural and Cultural

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Nature
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Culture
Grand Canyon by Thomas Moran
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IDEOLOGY

• Look for binaries, oppositions (good/evil,
  natural/unnatural, tame/wild, young/old). Which
  term of the binary is privileged, what is
  repressed or devalued by this privileging of one
  term over the other?

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IDEOLOGY

• What (and who) do these assumptions distort or
  obscure?

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IDEOLOGY

• What are the power relations? How are they made
  to appear as if they are normal or good? What
  negative aspects are excluded?

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IDEOLOGY

• What people, classes, areas of life, experiences,
  are 'left out', silenced?

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IDEOLOGY

• What cultural assumptions and what 'myths' shape
  experience and evaluation? What is mystified?

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IDEOLOGY

• An experience or event or thing is mystified when
  a broad cultural meaning obscures the particulars
  of that experience, event or thing this
  obscuring usually covers up or 'disappears'
  contrary or inconvenient facts. To demystify, pay
  attention to the particulars, the specifics, the
  concrete reality, with all its blemishes and
  contradictions.

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HIS STORY
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I STORY
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I-Story Paper

• Personal History Interview parent, family
  member, family stories (great grand father in
  World War I great grandmother immigrant)
• Place in historical context using textbook,
  course materials, internet research, print
  research

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I Story Paper

• Students are required to write a paper that
  includes a personal interview as part of the
  materials. Completed assignment is to be typed,
  single-spaced, and approximately 1000 words of
  text. Separate works cited page (MLA style) must
  include at least four resources. Incomplete
  citations are unacceptable. One citation must
  come from the textbook. One citation must come
  from an interview of a family member or member of
  the community who has experienced the historical
  period named. One citation must come from a
  legitimate online source. One citation must come
  from a book, magazine article, newspaper article,
  or other print medium from library.

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Grading criteria

• 1. title page works cited page
• 2. use of terminology from the text, hand-outs
  and lectures
• 3. good logical exposition and argumentation
• 4. competent writing skills
• 5. use of accurate and concrete examples from the
  course materials

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• 6. thoroughness
• 7. citation from text
• 8. citation from interview
• 9.citation from legitimate internet source
• 10. citation from print materials

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DUE DATE

• Monday April 23 _at_ 800 AM

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