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Educ. 240-3 Social Issues in Education
FALL, 1982
Tuesday/Thursday
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
(plus 1 hr. of tutorial
per week)
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Mike Manley-Casimir
LOCATION: on campus
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Social functions of the school; societal trends affecting the
institutions and practices of education.
RANGE OF TOPICS:
The course will focus on the school as a social institution and
then examine social issues that impinge on the school; for
example, the struggle for control of education, rights in school,
equality of educational opportunity, cultural pluralism, account-
ability, sex-role stereotyping, compulsory education, reform
and reaction in education.
REQUIREMENTS:
1.
Tutorial participation
2.
Term paper (10 - 12 pages in length)
3.
Final exam (probably take-home)
TEXTS:
Philip A. Cusick, Inside High
and Winston, 1973.
Randle W. Nelsen and David A.
97 Victoria Street
Between the Lines.
School, New York: 1-bit, Rinehart
(Paperback)
ock, Reading, Writing and Riches.
N., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada:
(Paperback)
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, McGraw Hill. (Paperback)
Brian Wren, Education for Justice. London: SCM Press, 1977.
(paperback).