Class activities (Party
Politics, Paper IV – Ideology, Blindness and Rightiousness; Applied Session)
The following is an account of the day at the Party Politics course at
NILS. The class starts at 3 pm and ends at 8:30 pm with a break for thirty
minutes.
3 pm:
The students are learning about American capitalism, British imperialism
and Soviet socialism.
3:30 pm:
Students are working in three groups. They are reading articles online
and jotting down positive and negative aspects of the above mentioned systems.
4 pm:
The students are constructing defensive arguments against the negative
aspects.
4.30 pm:
The students are still working in three groups. They are busy writing
political speeches on bahalf of all three systems. The speeches exaggerate the
positives and downplay or disclaim the negatives.
5 pm:
BREAK
5:30 – 8:30 pm
(Applied Session):
The teacher discusses with the students how politics is often more about
suggesting that ‘they’ are wrong than asserting that ‘we’ are right.
The students are asked to prepare for a debate session. The class is
divided again in three groups. One group becomes the representative for Donald
Trump, the second one represent Queen Victoria and the third one Joseph Stalin.
During the debate each group tries to establish the absolute supremacy
and correctness of their leader and the respective political system.
The debate ends a little after 8:40 pm. Queen Victoria’s British Empire
emerges as the winner.
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