https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f Group 4 en-us 2017-10-20 07:59:09 UTC 2026-01-30 06:47:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203901813 -power over the body 
-the history of sexuality ]]> 2017-11-06 14:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203901813 https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203902183 How it can relate to Avatar:

-the idea of using an Avatar body 
-trying to control the Na’vi (government trying to move/get rid of them), similar to Foucault’s idea of a prison??

]]> 2017-11-06 14:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203902183 https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203903440 How it can relate to Avatar:

-‘issues to do with sex are important for modern people, but there is a standard ‘norm’ that we should all be achieving. It is seen as difficult and that we need help with that’
-relates to Avatar because government thinks lowly of the Na’vi as they aren’t at the same standard of ‘norm’ and that Jake feels the need to help them because they aren’t at the same level — colonisation?

]]> 2017-11-06 14:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203903440 https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203907628 - give students questions to discuss and then open it up to a big class discussion through a padlet wall 
-mini speeding dating debate ]]> 2017-11-06 14:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/203907628 https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/207338938 2017-11-15 17:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/207338938 https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/211335744 You take the time to situate Foucault’s ideas via an overview of his life and work, and while this is a good move, I would like to have seen more on his ideas about knowledge/power and sexuality in addition to the explanation of power from discipline and punish. To be fair you do get to this when you focus on the film, and you explain his ideas on how discourse shapes and defines sexuality quite well. I feel that the project would have benefited from some detailed and specific analysis of exactly how discourse and power are used by both the human protagonists of the film and the text itself to frame and define the Na’vi. It is surely significant that Jake joins with an anthropologist (the Sigourney Weaver Character) in order to study and classify the Na’vi and their behaviour, in much the same way as Freudian anthropologists roamed the earth in the early twentieth century studying non-western peoples to see if things like the Oedipal prohibition were universal. You did a good job with this overall though. The slides are clear and supply just the right amount of information each time, and you presented in a clear and confident way.

Huw]]> 2017-11-29 11:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/k_mcgowan/1fggkjog6v5f/wish/211335744