Interpretive Analyses

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Analysis VI, due by 8:30 am Wednesday, 16 November on D2L

At the end of the first section, Percy's narrowed the problem of learning down to the difficulty of creating a relationship with oneself as a knower, as one who is capable of knowing. For this analysis, pick an example he uses from the second half of the essay that succeeds in developing this relationship with oneself as a knower, and show how it works. You should have a few sub-reasons for supporting your choice. Compose your analysis using from 150 to 250 words and a single paragraph.

Analysis V, due by 8:30 am Friday, 11 November on D2L

Percy gives four ways for recovering the object to be known from the Preformulated Symbolic Complex, on page 1 and page 2. Choose one of these four ways and argue that this method of recovery would be appropriate for education. You should have a few sub-reasons for supporting your choice. Compose your analysis using from 150 to 250 words and a single paragraph.

Analysis IV, due by 8:30 am Friday, 7 October by email

Analyze the role that memory plays in the act of learning in Rodriguez's essay. Take care to not merely describe the little boy's memory; instead, speak more abstractly about the ways in which memory facilitates learning for Rodriguez. Compose your analysis using from 100 to 175 words and a single paragraph.

Analysis III, due by 8:30 am Friday, 16 September by email

Analyze the significance with which Freire uses Communication to advance and define the task of education. Compose your analysis using from 100 to 175 words and a single paragraph.

Analysis II, due by 8:30 am Friday, 9 September by email

How does Freire use the concept of reality within his system of education? At first glance, the concept of reality seems a bit strange as a subject for education theory. But Freire uses it as an integral component of his theory. In 100 to 175 words, analyze the ways in which Freire uses reality to ground his system of education.

Analysis I, due by 8:30 am Friday, 2 September by email

For your first analytical writing assignment, I’d like you to think about knowledge— surely one of the key elements in any education theory. In a single well-developed paragraph of between 100 and 175 words, analyze knowledge as a significant concept within Freire’s understanding of human learning.