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EDLIC. 240-3 SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
SPRING, 1982
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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. M. Manley-Casimir
Tuesday/Thursday 10:30 - 11:20
(plus 1 hour of tutorial each week) 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 School, New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1973. (Paperback)
Randle W. Nelsen and David A. Nock, Reading, Writing and Riches,
97 Victoria Street N., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada:
Between the Lines. (Paperback)
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, McGraw Hill. (Paperback)
John Eisenberg and Gailand Macqueen, Don't Teach That, Gereral
Publishing Co., 1972. (Paperback)