Gallery of testimonials
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Differents points of view about capitalism:
A Gallery of Testimonials
MODULE 1From the Industrial Revolution to the Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism
Manchester: A Case Study in European History
WORKSHOP 6CREDITS
• BALDO Sara
• MONGERA Enrico
• MONTANARI Veronica
• TALIAN Lorenzo
• ZANUTTA Riccardo
WHAT AND HOW?
Task: Gallery of testimonialsObjectives: To create a mental archive useful to bring into focus the thinkers’ ideas about capitalism as a process which has modified the architecture and the social structure. Materials: (texts, resources, videos, pictures, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site)Text types analysed: Memoir, Articles, EssaysMethodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)
WHY?
Language skills: speaking, reading, writing, discussing, interacting, public speakingStudy Skills and Knowledge: structure of argumentative text, use of literary code,textual structural analysis,selection of resources,critical interpretation of resources, spoken and written production, interactionICT skills: Office(.doc, .ppt), Internet surfing, pdf…What to do with the language Competence:Creating a gallery of testimonials
SKILLS - STUDY PRACTICE FEED-BACK
Learning skills
reading, manipulating differents texts’typologies acquiring a specific vocabulary comprehension, textual analysis, group discussion, Selection skills, critical thinking, gathering of ideas, planning, drafting, redrafting, peer proof reading, image selection, reorganizing, generating a .ppt presentation generating a .pdf document public speaking
FEEDBACK
1. What you have learnt? Selecting resources, news about capitalism and the
current economic and social situation in Europe, interacting in a workgroup.
2.What could be improved more?
3.Level of appreciation and usefullness of workshop: We appreciated this work beacuse it was useful to
learn new details about economy
Testimonials
• Alexis de Tocqueville• Thomas Sowell• Charles Dickens• Jeanette Winterson • Riccardo Bellofiore’s journal article• Luigi Zingales
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
French Political thinker and historian
Liberal position about democracy,
Reference text: Journey to England and Ireland
Focus: Manchester
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,,
Critical thinking: alienation, exploitation, industrialization,, inequal distribution of wealth, bad working condition, double nature of capitalism,utilitarism
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist
Critical of his contemporary economy, politic, society and culture
Reference text: Das Kapital
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, Luigi Zingales
Critical thinking:industrialization,, inequal distribution of wealth, money creates wealth
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 -1883)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter(1883 -1950)
An Austrian American economist and political scientist.
Popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics
Reference text: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: K. Marx, L. Zingales, R. Bellofiore
Critical thinking: industrialization, the European financial situation, creative destruction
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English Victorian novelist
remarkable characters
superb telling technique
symbolic portrait social class contrast
Reference text: Hard Times
Utilitarianism
Focus: Coketown
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, L. Zingales,
Critical thinking: alienation, exploitation, industrialization, facts versus fancy, wealth versus well-being, working class - capitalists
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author
conservative thinker of the late 20th century
America's leading philosopher seminal study on the role of Race in history explain the principles underlying modern
economics.
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,,
Critical thinking: pushiness, justice and equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity
Thomas Sowell (1930)
British Conservative Politician
statesman and orator
twice Prime Minister (1940–45 and 1951–55)
officer in the British Army
historian, writer, artist
he received the Nobel Prize in Literature
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references:
Critical thinking: capitalism, socialism, blessing, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class, army
Winston Churchill(1874-1965)
Contemporary English Writer
adopted by Pentecostal parents
boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, sexual identities
Reference text:
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Focus: Manchester
Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, C. Dickens
Critical thinking: industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class – capitalists, process of change, contradictions inside society.
Jeanette Winterson (1959)
An economist and educator, and the winner of the 2003 Germán Bernácer Prize to the best European economist under 40 working in macro-finance.
Competition isn’t guaranted by the control organisms
Reference text: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: Adam Smith,
Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe
Luigi Zingales(1963)