DISRUPT Cohort 4
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📽️ Economics is for Everyone
So What is CEL?

👓 DISRUPT Thinking Routine
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Module 1 - Economics and The Price Mechanism

📽️ What is Economics all about? (hint: it is not about money)
The Invisible Hand?
Explore this website
History of Western Economic Thought
f2f Session 1 - January 14th 8pm Beijing time
f2f Session 1 Video Recap.mp4
Your DISRUPT Project
Reflection 1 - How have I benefited from the price mechanism?
References
Extension Material
Module 2 - Economics Over the Ages

📗 An Introduction to neoliberalism (Harvey, 2005)
Quick overview of neoliberalism
Neoliberalism the ideology at the root of all our problems (Monbiot, 2016)
A more dramatic telling of the neoliberal narrative
f2f Session 2 - 21st Jan 8:15 pm Beijing time
f2f Session 2 Video Recap.mp4
🪞 Reflection 2: Explain what neoliberalism means to you. Describe 1 way you see neoliberalism evidenced in your life or in our world.
References
Extension Material
Module 3 - When Pricing Fails: Externalities

📽️ What Causes the Price Mechanism to Fail?
How are Externalities Usually Corrected? The Pigouvian Tax
f2f Session 3 - 28th Jan 8:15pm Beijing time
fsf Session 3 Video Recap.mp4
Reflection 3 - What will our society look like when we pay the true price of goods and services we buy?
References
Extension Material
Module 4 - The Labour Market

📽️ What is a Minimum Wage? Does it protect or hurt workers?
How did Nobel Prize winning Economist, David Card, Challenge Conventional Economic Assumptions?
23 Things They Do Not Tell You About Capitalism - Interview with Prof Chang
f2f Session 4 - 4th Feb 8:15pm Beijing Time
f2f Session 4 Video Recap.mp4
Reflection 4 - What is one of my own economic assumption about labour? How does the labour market advantage some while disadvantaging others?
References
Extension Material
Module 5 - The Gross Domestic Product

📽️ What is the GDP and how is it derived? How is GDP helpful? Problematic?
Who is Freire and What is "Banking" Education?
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Chapter 2
f2f Session 5 - 11th Feb 8:15pm Beijing time
f2f Session 5 Video Recap.mp4
Reflection 5 - What are the ways I have been “banked” in my education that creates a sense of unbridled faith in the GDP?
CEL Project Template.pptx
References
Extension Material
Module 6 - A Linear Economy in a Resource Scarce World

The Story of Stuff
Why the Doughnut Matters? Doughnut Economics
Biomimicry in Action
The Age of Carbon
🎯 Your Project Submissions
f2f Session 6 - 4th March 8:15pm Beijing Time
f2f Session 6 Video Recap.mp4
Reflection 6 - Economists have gotten their own story wrong…what other incoherences do you come across? What are the implications this has or can have? (eg.art as expression of beauty/truth but how its expressions are being commodified and falsified?”
References
Extension Material
Module 7: Escaping from The Velvet Cage?

So what is Socially Sanctioned Ignorance/Epistemic Blindness?
📗 What does "Critical" Mean?
The Way Forward in our Neoliberalized World - Critical Economic Literacy
f2f Session 7 - 11th March 8:15pm Beijing Time
f2f Session 7 Video Recap.mp4
Reflection 7 - What has been my role in this Velvet Cage of neoliberalism? What role do I want to play?
References
Extension Material
Module 8: Project Presentations - Let's DISRUPT!

DISRUPT Project Sample 1 - CEL in Physics.pptx
DISRUPT Project Sample 2 - Short story: Undergrowth Protocol
f2f Session 8 18th March 8:15 - 9:30pm Beijing Time
CEL f2f Session 8.mp4
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Resources for Further Exploraton

Ellis et al (2019) Teacher Education and the Germ (Global Education Reform Movement)
Klees (2020) Beyond neoliberalism: Reflections on capitalism
McCarthy (2011) The Unmaking of Education in the Age of Globalization, Neoliberalism and Information
Grace Lee Boggs (2012) The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century

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