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    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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    Education
    240-3
    SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
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    (D2.00)
    Fall Semester, 1994 ?
    Instructor. ?
    Frank Koop
    (September 6-December 5)
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    Phone:
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    787-1446
    Fridays; 9:00-12:00 a.m.
    Location: Northern Lights College, Fort St. John Campus
    OBJECTIVES:
    1.
    To encourage students to develop a more profound understanding of the school as a
    social institution.
    2.
    To study the effects current social issues are having on the school system.
    3.
    To apply informed analytical skills to former notions about schooling and to think
    about the effects and possible consequences of recent research in education.
    PROCEDURES:
    The course will consist of: lectures by the instructor and possibly selected guests, group
    discussions, student presentations, films, and other relevant resources,
    all of which shall
    have the purpose of promoting thoughtful consideration of issues impacting on
    education and broadening the student's perspectives. Assessment will be based on
    written assignments, tests and class participation.
    TOPICS:
    • Demands of the Stakeholders
    • Educating for Responsible Citizenship
    • Ownership of Education—Public/Private
    • Accommodating a Cultural Mosaic
    • Professionalism of Educators
    • Equal Opportunity in Education
    • Technological Impacts
    • Human Rights Issues
    • Economic Imperatives
    • Educating for the Future
    • Values Education
    REQUIRED READINGS:
    Ghosh, Ratna & Ray, Douglas. (Eds.) (1991).
    Social Change and Education
    in Canada.
    Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Canada.
    RECOMMENDED READINGS:
    Gatto, John. (1992).
    Dumbing us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory
    Schooling.
    Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers.
    Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988).
    Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential
    School. Vancouver: Tillacum
    Library.
    ISBN 0-88978-189-3
    Kozol, Jonathan. (1992).
    Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools.
    New
    York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-517-58221-X.
    Wassermann, Selma. (1993). Getting Down to Cases: Learning to Teach with Case
    Studies.
    New York. Teachers College Press. ISBN 0-8077-3291-5.
    Webber, Marlene. (1991). Street Kids: The Tragedy of Canada's Runaways.
    Toronto:
    University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-6705-0.

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