The Flipped Classroom

• The flipped classroom basically means flipping the control so that the students have more authority of what they are learning, and so that they are more in charge of their own learning
• They also in a way create their own answers
• The idea comes from how there is no hierarchy between students and teachers, in effect that the teacher is not all knowing and that the students are stupid

Jacques Ranviere  (a trendy French philosopher)

• He wrote two texts; the ignorant school matter and the politics of aesthetics
• He was involved in the French May 1968 student revolution, including a general strike and occupations of factories and universities
• The students revolted due to unfair fees and general oppression in the creative industries.

• In this era, dressing down was a weapon used against conservatives
• He was also involved in producing pamphlets on the poverty of student life
• There was a poster made entitled 'sous les paves, le plage', translating to something along the lines of that underneath the horror and repression, there is beauty.

Louis Althusser

• Ranviere also admired the French marxist philosopher, Louis Althusser.
• He had two states of apparatus in which he believed:
• Repressive state apparatus- physical control
• Idealogical state apparatus- happy with social status/ mental control
• He stated that the world is not equally available to all and questioned who can actually have a share in what is common to everyone? He believed that these states could prevent certain people from participating in certain things.

Looking back at Ranviere; his book 'The ignorant schoolmaster:five lessons on intellectual emancipation' looks at an exiled French teacher attempting to teach a class of Dutch students, but the main problem here was the language barrier. To overcome this, the teacher takes a 'figure it out for yourself' approach to the matter, embracing the theory that anyone can learn by themselves.

Conclusion

• Education is a project that should be undertaken n common; for the common
• 'The distribution of the sensible' and 'society of content' prevent participation in common therefore acting as an educational barrier.
• Stultification- Repression
• Self-education- Emancipation