Flipped Classroom

Flipped classroom flips the hierarchy of traditional education and centers the educational process on the student. It allows the student to be very deeply embedded into what ever they're learning. We looked at this idea through the lens of Jacques Rancier,one of the latest popular French philosophers.
In May 1969 France, a revolutionary moment took place, lead by students and young people. Soon enough the movement spread to the working class. These students were revolting against the fact that the upper education was elitist, also protested the increased specialism. This education was dis-empowering, it was training people to become a machine that fits into a flawed society without trying to improve it or innovate.
The way these students gathered attention was by taking control over universities. They also took over the school of fine art and turned it into a factory for pamphlets and revolution related art. One of the most famous slogans was sous les paves, la plage, meaning under repression and pavement there is beauty. The movement did not succeed, however it did shake up a new way of thinking about education. Louis Althusser was one of the student radicals, he was a French Marxist, his most famous theory was Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus, in which he explored the reasons why society maintains the social structures and it is by two main ways- the repressive apparatus and ideological apparatus. The number one institution that keeps capitalism reproducing and living is school. It separates everyone individually and makes students superior or inferior to their fellow man. Schools introduce and adapts young people to the capitalist social structure.
Ranciere in his book The Politics of Aesthetics explains that the world is not equally available to everyone, this distribution determines who can participate in certain things, for instance galleries picking which work to put up. This separated society makes people compete with each other, teachers who take part of the classroom hierarchy imply that the lecturer is more intelligent than the student which is very negative. So that idea of May 68 runs through Ranciers work, and it challenges the established social structure and especially the educational system. Another of Ranciers books The Ignorant Schoolmaster explores the idea of taking the teacher away from the classroom and speculating what the example of Joseph Jacotot means in relation to education. The teacher is socializing students into the dependence of others, making them think that some students are better than others and cuts of any possible intellectual emancipation. He poses the question what a society would look like if it was formed by the assumption that everyone is equally intelligent. However he concluded that this would never take, but it will not perish. It must be announced to everyone. The institution closest to the Ranciere model is The School of Damned. It is based in London, and it is an autonomous art school. It is entirely student controlled, the curriculum's are decided by the students, after the year is finished they have to let go of the curriculum's and let the next year students take over. This lets the exchange of intellectual and art related labor take place. It is a model that is outside of capitalism and it shows that there is possibility for a flipped classroom to thrive.
To conclude-
SELF EDUCATION= EMANCIPATION