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Education
240-3
Social Issues in Education
FALL,
1983 ?
INSTRUCTOR: Suzanne deCastell
Office: CAE
623
Phone:
291-3627
Thursdays, 10 -
12
noon
(+ 1 hour tutorial each week) ?
LOCATION: on campus
This course is concered with the role and functions of the school
as a social institution, and focuses on a variety of issues which
educators, parents, and students should be conscious of. Some of
these, such as sexism, racism, social-class and the like, are
obvious and controversial. Others, such as competition, streaming,
classroom and school hierarchies, the promotion of "conformity" in
school texts and corporate control of the school curriculum, will be
less obvious. The course integrates films, panel discussion, formal
lectures and guest speakers.
REQUIRED READING:
Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herb.
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Schooling in Capitalist America.
Basic Books,
1976.
Wilson, Donald. ?
Canadian Education in the
1
80's. Detselig Enterprises,
1982.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Apple, Michael. ?
Ideology and Curriculum. Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1979.
Esland, Dale et. al. (eds.). ?
Schooling and Capitalism: A Sociological
Reader. Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1976.
F\/AI HAT IflN•.
Will be based on three tutorial assignments of
2-3
pages each (eg.
article review, curriculum analysis, "think"paper
)
etc.);
20
for each =
60
of grade. Course Assignment: final term paper, integrating
literature review
(15°)
with critical discussion and conclusion
(25°
.
) =
10? of grade. There will not be any formal examination in this course.