
- Instructor: Egbert Higinio
- Lectures: 1
- Students: 9
- Duration: 10 weeks
This course is intended to develop the ability to analyze, criticize critique, and advocate ideas. The lecture will show relationship of language to logic, induction and deduction, facts, inferences, judgments, and formal and informal fallacies of language and thought. A little journal writing about issues of higher level critical thinking to develop reading for understanding to influence both your thinking, expression, and higher level writing skills.
Instructors:
Lead Lecturer: Egbert R Higinio, MA
Co-lectures: Pablo Blanco, MA; & Rodny Sambola, MSc
Course Schedule:
February 28 to May 2, 2022, 1 hour
Every Monday
08:00 pm Nicaragua/Belize/Guatamala/
06:00 pm Pacific Time/LA
9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time/NY
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Main objective:
The course aims that our adults read and analyze the knowledge production of our justice mentors, to use as guides to decolonize ideas of our Garifuna nation, and to rebuild on the mental-model of our ancestors. Think together; teamwork dialectics.
Mondays – 6pm LA, 8pm Bze, 9pm NY. | Topics below. Zoom and readings will be sent via email. |
Introduction to Critical Thinking – terminologies, theories, and practices | |
Talented Tenth – W.E.B. DuBois; versus Washington Garver, Is there an African Civilization – Anto Diop | |
The ruling class, & their ruling ideas. What, How, and Why. | |
How Europe Under-Develop Africa – Walter Rodney | |
Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paolo Freire | |
Miseducation of the Negro – Carter G. Woodson, & Panopticism | |
Discourse on Colonialism – Aime Cesaire | |
Black Skin, White Mask – Franz Fanon | |
Theory of Justice – John Rawls. Ideas of Justice – Amartya Sen | |
Creating Capabilities – Martha Nussbaum | |
– student presentations |