Greetings!! Everyone. This blog is based on 'A Flipped Learning Task' assigned by Dr. Dilipsir Barad. In this blog questions are answered after watching videos.
> Information About Flipped Learning:-
Flipped learning is an educational approach where traditional instructional methods are inverted. In this model, the direct instruction is delivered outside of the classroom, often through videos or reading assignments, and classroom time is dedicated to engaging in interactive activities, discussions, and problem-solving exercises. This approach allows students to gain first exposure to new material on their own time and then use classroom time to deepen their understanding through collaborative and hands-on learning experiences. The goal of flipped learning is to create a more student-centered learning environment that encourages active participation and critical thinking.
>> Here are some key characteristics of flipped learning:-
1. Pre-Class Preparation:- Students are assigned learning materials to study before coming to class. This can include video lectures, readings, or other multimedia resources.
2. Active Learning:- Classroom time is used for activities that promote deeper understanding, such as group discussions, projects, problem-solving tasks, and other hands-on activities.
3. Teacher's Role:- In the flipped classroom, teachers act more as facilitators or coaches rather than traditional lecturers, guiding students through activities and providing individualized support.
4. Student Engagement:- Flipped learning aims to increase student engagement by making learning more interactive and collaborative.
5. Differentiated Instruction:- The approach allows for more personalized learning experiences, as teachers can address individual student needs and provide targeted support during class time.
Flipped learning is designed to enhance the learning process by making it more dynamic and responsive to the needs of students.
VIDEO:1 > Defining Deconstruction
1. Why is it difficult to define Deconstruction?
> There is a difficulty of definition. Because there have been problems defining deconstruction. Derrida claimed that all of his essays were attempts to define what deconstruction is, and that deconstruction is necessarily complicated and difficult to explain since it actively criticizes the very language needed to explain it.
2. Is Deconstruction a negative term?
> No, it is not a negative term. This goal separates Destruction from deconstruction, not because deconstruction is purely negative, but because it has no fixed endpoint or goal. Deconstruction is always an on-going process because the constantly shifting nature of language means that no final meaning or interpretation of a text is possible.
3. How does Deconstruction happen on its own?
> Deconstruction is a process that involves questioning one's beliefs and the beliefs of others. It can happen in layers and spirals, and it can be a potentially infinite process. Some say that deconstruction is a double movement of simultaneous affirmation and undoing, and that it has no correct destination or right way to do it.
VIDEO:2 > Heidegger & Derrida
1. The influence of Heidegger on Derrida:-
> Heidegger was famous German Philosopher with his well known work "Being and Time" 1927 which destroyed the entire western tradition of philosophy. In this work he criticize 'The Idea of Being of Beings.' This influenced Derrida.
2. Derridean rethinking of the foundations of Western philosophy:-
> As discuss in the video Derrida was influenced by Heidegger's idea of Phonocentricism and logocentricism he added that the importance of phonocentricism means speech on logocentricism means writing in history of criticism.
VIDEO:3 > Ferdinand De Saussure & Derrida
1. Ferdinand de Saussureian concept of language (that meaning is arbitrary, relational, constitutive)
> The idea was given by Saussure is the idea of Sign. According to him language is sign and it is signifier and signified with that we understand the meaning. He also told about the arbitrary relation between signifier and signified.
Moreover, according to Saussure, language is constitutive. This means that language constitutes the word we experience; it does not refer to the world in itself. This concept is perhaps the most radical, and the hardest to comprehend, of anything Saussure proposed.
2. How Derrida deconstructs the idea of arbitrariness?
> Derrida deconstructs the idea of arbitrariness by showing that while signs are arbitrary in their relationship to what they signify, their meanings are contingent and interconnected through a web of different relations, challenging the stability of any fixed or absolute meaning.
3. Concept of metaphysics of presence:-
> In Deconstruction philosophy Derrida characterizes as the “metaphysics of presence.” This is the tendency to conceive fundamental philosophical concepts such as truth, reality, and being in terms of ideas such as presence, essence, identity, and origin—and in the process to ignore the crucial role of absence and difference.
VIDEO:4 > DifferAnce
1. Derridean concept of DifferAnce:-
> Derrida's concept of "différance" combines the ideas of difference and deferral, highlighting how meaning is both differentiated and deferred through language, challenging traditional notions of fixed and immediate meaning and both 'Difference and DifferAnce' have different in writing but not in pronouncing.
2. Infinite play of meaning:-
> The infinite play of meaning refers to the continuous and endless process of signification where meanings are fluid, interconnected, and constantly shifting, without a fixed or final interpretation.
3. DIfferAnce = to differ + to defer:-
> Derrida combined two words "Différance" combines "to differ" (difference) and "to defer" (deferral) both have similar meaning that is "DifferAnce".
VIDEO:5 > Structure, Sign & Play
1. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences:-
> Derrida presented a paper at Yale University in which he does critique of his work Structuralist Anthropology. This works provide numbers of arguments such as role of speech, writing, and language etc.
2. Explain: "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique."
> "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique" is a statement by Jacques Derrida in his work Structure, Sign and Play. It's a central idea to deconstructive criticism, which aims to reveal the contradictions and inconsistencies within texts and ideas.
VIDEO:6 > Yale School
1. The Yale School: the hub of the practitioners of Deconstruction in the literary theories:-
> Yale school, group of literary critics at Yale University, who became known in the 1970s and '80s for their deconstructionist theories. The Yale school's skeptical, relativistic brand of criticism drew inspiration from the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
2. The characteristics of the Yale School of Deconstruction:-
> The Yale form of deconstruction tends to be a highly playful and erudite form of close reading, with very little interest in making either a philosophical or political point, whereas Derrida is precisely concerned with the latter.
Moreover,
- Critiquing binary oppositions
- Questioning aesthetic and formalist approaches
- Examining rhetoric and language intricacies
VIDEO:7 > Other Schools and Deconstruction
1. How other schools like New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Marxism and Postcolonial theorists used Deconstruction?
> Other schools like Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Marxism and Postcolonial theorists have employed deconstruction:
1. New Historicism: Reveals instability in historical narratives and hidden power/ideology contradictions.
2. Cultural Materialism: Exposes economic and power dynamics in cultural production.
3. Feminism: Challenges patriarchal structures and gender binaries.
4. Marxism: Uncovers capitalist ideologies and their contradictions.
5. Postcolonial Theory: Critiques colonial narratives, highlighting complexities in postcolonial identities.
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