Fall Semester 2003 ?
EDUC 100 ?
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Selected Questions & Issues in Education
Office: EDB 9508
Phone: 461-9592
Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:30-10:20
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D01.00
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E-mail: jc1arksosfu.ca
WMX 2202
PREREQUISITE:
None.
This course introduces students to a small but representative sample of basic questions and issues in
education. Students will examine questions relating to: the concept or idea of education; learning and the
learner; teaching and the teacher; and more generally, the broader contexts of education. This course also
introduces students to different ways of exploring educational questions and issues <from philosophical
and critical analysis, to historical and cross-cultural studies, to empirical research. Students with credit for
300 and 400 level education courses cannot take this course for credit.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1.
Written responses to questions arising in class.
2.
Written responses to selected course readings.
3.
Written discussions of issues and questions arising in the media during the term.
REQUIRED READING:
Allan C. Ornstein. (2003). Pushing the Envelope: Critical Issues in Education.