Is it possible to teach a class on critical theory to high schoolers?

I don't know what Yuro secondary education is like but I don't think it would work out in Burgerland, because trying to engage with critical theory without a solid background in western philosophy is walking before you can crawl.

why would you want to perpetuate that plague?

>>8991273
God, American high schools are dumb.

>>8991273
Can you greentext it? That should be a good acid test. Then again,

Also, do you ever drop lit memes in class?

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>>8991273
It could be possible only if you actually have a descent grasp of western thought (not only philosophy; history and anthropology aswell) like >>8991613 says.

It could be taught as an introduction to critical theory and be based on a really slow pace pedagogical method, aswell as expecting a shallow level of understanding from the students.

I have some experience "teaching" to high schoolers, but I'm not American so I don't know could it work in a American high school.

>>8991273
>Is it possible to teach a class on critical theory to high schoolers?

Isn't the whole purpose of school education? Why do you want to turn those poor kids into borderline retards?

>>8991273
No, because critical theory is deliberately obscurantist and inaccessible.

>>8992680
>>8992722
What is critical theory to you guys? Fucking idiots dont know what they're talking about.

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>>8991273
>Critical theory

fuck you idiot

>>8991273
I wish postmodernism would just die.

>>8993152
i saw this from page 1, and i just want to say that it is embarrassing that you thought this was actually a good idea to type out and hit post. how old are you? are you literate?

>>8993169
"Postmodernism" actually means "everything about modernity that I don't like."

>>8993075
Critical theory means many different things in different contexts.

>>8993186
i saw this from page 1, and i just want to say that it is embarrassing that you thought this was actually a good idea to type out and hit post. how old are you? are you literate?

>>8991273
>free decoding ring inside
>not deconstruction ring

>>8991273
I would adapt the key chapters from Kenneth Burke (Grammar of Motives) and teach the pentad. It's a basic enough construct that anybody can understand it, and it resides beneath any political or philosophical considerations. It gives students a framework to change the way they read from lackadaisical surface entertainment to a critical and engaged close reading. Like a primer they can take forward in any further direction, without a loaded bias.

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>>8991273
>critical theory to high schoolers

child abuse.

>>8995341

Smart anon. Yeah, go for early 20th century americans. Teaching translations of German or French stuff usually associated with crit theory is a waste of time on high schoolers.

I think kids could get some use out of Northrop Frye, as well. His archetypal system is food for the imagination.

>>8991273
>How would you approach it?

I wouldn't.

The next generation is already doomed as it is. No need to poison them further.

>>8993075
>>8991273
marxism and the downfall of western society

>>8995385
A natural fit. It almost writes its own exam questions:

Use Burke's pentad to explain whether [text] is primarily centripetal, or centrifugal.

>>8991273
I was taught that in the year 10 of secondary school, so yeah.

>>8991613
I walked before I could crawl, true story, so yeah.