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Action taken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
at its meeting of May 20, 1980 gives rise to the following motion:
MOTION:
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"That Senate approve, and recommend approval to the Board,
as set forth in S.80-69, the proposed new course EDUC 361-4
- Contemporary Issues and New Developments in Education I."
Note: Subject to approval of the course by Senate and the Board, SCUS
waived the time lag requirement in order that EDUC 361-4 may be
first offered in the Fall semester 80-3.
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND NEW
The Faculty of Education at its meeting on March 24. 1980 has approved
the attached new course proposal: Education 361-4 (Contemporary Issues and
New Developments in Education I).
Please include this new course proposal on the agenda of the next meeting
of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
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EDUCATION 361-4 CONTF!vIPORARY ISSUES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
EDUCATION
Rationale
The continuing education of teachers, an ongoing concern for the past several
decades, is receiving added.attention as a result of declining school
enrolment. Not only has the phenomenon of declining enrolment resulted
in a static teaching population, but it has also produceda need for
retraining of teachers.
The Extended Studies Diploma Program in Education provides a vehicle for
introducing new ideas into classrooms thereby addressing some of the
problems resulting from a static teaching population. Italso offers,
to some degree, a means of retraining teachers to fill new roles within
the schools.
The Extended Studies Diploma at Simon Fraser University involves 30
hours of approved upper division coursework. The intent is that students
should identify a program of coursework as a condition of being accepted
into the program. Experience has shown however, that for a student/teacher
who has not taken a university course for the past several years, the task
of selecting a viable program based on available coursework becomes a
rather arbitrary exercise. It was with this problem in mind that the
Undergraduate Programs Committee introduced on an experimental basis the
course, Contemporary Issues and New Developments in Education. The course
was intended to introduce students to new developments related to teaching
both to provide a broadened perspective and also to enable students to be more
selective in their subsequent choice of coursework.
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Experience with the
course which has now been offered on five occasions has been that it does
serve these two purposes. In addition, progressively the course has
become a vehicle through which students develop skills in critical analysis
and writing, equiping them to better handle subsequent coursework.
The course proposal which follows introduces a new course, Education 361
which is a regularization of the experimental course just described.
It will be offered once each year as theintroductory course for a special
intake of students intending to pursue an Extended Studies Diploma.
1. Enrolment
in
the course has been as follows: On Campus 78-3 (25),
Mt. Currie 79-1 (15), On Campus 79-3 (32), Kamloops 79-3 (18),
Vernon 79-3 (21).
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
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Calendar Information
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Abbreviation Code:
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Number:
361 ?
Credit Hours:
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Title of Course: Contemporary Issues and New Developments in Teaching
Calendar Description ofCourse: This course, intended for students entering the
Extended Studies Diploma Program in Education provides a survey of new
developments and current issues in teaching and educational practice.
* A Coordinator will be responsible for the course and Faculty will provide
input with regard to developments. Paper will be distributed two weeks prior
to each presentation.
Nature of Course: lecture/seminar
Prerequisites (or special instructions): Not less than 60 hours credit.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped frofn the calendarf this course is
approved: None.
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Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? Once per year
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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Fall 1980
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To provide a survey of new developments and contemporary issues in teaching and
educational practice.
To .
develop appropriate skills of critical analysis in order to assess issues and
developments.
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getaryandSpaceRequirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty - No additional faculty are required. One of several faculty members?
will be asked to coordinate the course as part of load.
Staff ?
- none.
Library - Previous outlines of the course have been sent to the library are assessment.
Audio Visual - none.
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- none.
Equipment - none.
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Dprtmcnt Cairmar
Education 361-4
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COURSE OUTLINE
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The organization of the course will vary somewhat from year to
year depending on the availability of Faculty and changes in the
field of teaching that can be expected to emerge that should be
reflected in the course. In order to insure that the course
adequately reflects the pluralistic nature of Education, it
is proposed that the outline be presented to the Undergraduate
Programs Committee each time the course is offered. A sample
outline of the course follows:
Week 1
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. Introduction
a)
what constitutes an issue?
b)
what constitutes a development?
Week 2
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Conceptualization in which to view developments
Skills of critical analysis
Week 3
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Analysis of teaching
Week 4
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Multiculturalism and cultural differences
Week 5
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Learning disabilities
Week. 6 ?
Problems of literacy
Week 7
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Review of developments and issues
Week 8
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Self education
Week 9
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. Educating awareness
Week 10
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Early childhood education
Week 11
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Environmental education
Week 12
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Movement education
Week 13
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Review of developments and issues
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IIGISTRjj OFFJIg
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The texts listed below are listed for purposes of those students who wish to
pursue different areas. The required reading for the course will be sets of
papers that will be distributed from time to time during the semester.
Alley F Deshler, Teaching the Learning Disabilities Adolescent: Strategies and
Methods, Love Publishing Company, 1979
Bijou, S., Child Development:
The Basic Stage of Earl
y
Childhood, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1976
Cratty, B., Movement Behavior and Motor Learning. Philadelp hia
, Lea and Febijner,
1967
Dearden, R. F., The Philosoph
y
of Primar y
Educatioii., London, Routledge Kagan Paul
Dunkin, M.J. E Biddle, B.J., The Stud
y
of Teaching
Farnham-Diggory, S., Learnin
g
Disabilities: A Psychological Perspective, Harvard
University Press, 1978
Hirst, P.H. and Peters, R.S., The Lo
g
ic of Education
Hunkins, F.P., Questioning Strategies and Techniques
Joyce, B. R. Well, M., Models of Teaching
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Knowles,, Malcolm, Self Directed Learnin
g
, Association Press, 1975
Lloyed, D.I., Philosophy and the Teacher
Logan, G.A., Adapted Physical
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Education, Dubuque, W.M. C. Brown, 1972.
Mann, P.H. and Suiter, P., Handbook in Diagnostic Teaching: A Learning Disabilities
A pp
roach (revised edition), Allyn Bacon, 1979
Metheng, E., Movement and Meanin
g
. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1968
Piaget, J., Science of Education and the Psychology of the Child, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, England, Penguin, 1970
Ross, A.O., Learning Disabilities: The Unrealized Potential, McGraw-Hill, 1977
Schmuck, Richard A. E Schmuck, Patricia A., Group Processes in the Classroom,
William C. Brown, 2nd edition, 1975
Stenhouse, Lawrence, An Introduction of Curriculum Research and Development,
London
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, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1975
U.N. B. S.C. 0.,, June, 1972, The Declaration on the Human Environment, Prepared for
the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 1972
Wells, K.F., Kinesiolo
gy
: The Scientific Basis of Human Motion, 5th ed., Philadelphia,
W.B. Saunders, 1971
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Date, -5 May 1980
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SFU LIBRARY COLLECTION EVALUATION
(To be completed only, for new course or program propoeal.)
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Course No
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Name or Program
Contmporary Issues and New Developments
in
Education 361-4
Date to be offered:
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Fall
1980
Resources currently in collection:
Reading lists. No and 2 of titles available;
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Related materials in general collection
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Monographs:
Serials Subscriptions
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Backfiles
Other:
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Recommended additions to collection:
(Indicate approx. no. of titles, vols.,
date, as appropriate)
Monographs:
10-20 titles
New serials subscriptions:
Serials backfiles:
Other (specify):
TIMATED COST
200.00
Total
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200.00
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Comments:
*Library
has adequate resources covering
several related areas
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We are able to support
this course with our
present
collection
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