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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

SELECTED QUESTIONS & ISSUES IN EDUCATION

(D200)

Kari A. Marken

email: kari.marken@gmail.com ?

telephone: 604-731-4838 ?

Burnaby Campus?

Office Hours/Location: Tues/Thurs 1:00-3:00pm please email or call for an appointment

Wednesday&Friday

12:30-2:20 pm BLU 10921

PREREQUISITE:

None.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

An introduction 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. Cannot be taken for credit by

students with credit for 300 and 400 level education courses. Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To engage in critical discussions inspired by questions regarding issues in education. For example:

What is our personal and societal history of education? What makes a "good" teacher? How is

education related to social justice, politics, and ecology? What are the roles of imagination and

empowerment in education? What is the purpose of education in the digital age? What is the work that

we do as teachers?

• To enable students to articulate their answers to these questions and to introduce new questions

through academic writing and interactive presentations.

• To model a variety of methods of classroom organization and styles of teaching.

ASSIGNMENTS

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GRADING

%15 Discussion paper on an Educational Issue/Question of your choice (750 words)

.%20 Individual presentation: Educational History (social or personal)— 10 minutes

%20 Interactive group presentation: details of assignment to be discussed in class

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Proposal for Final Research paper (500 words) ** be prepared to share your

proposal with other members of the class.

%30 Final research paper: details of research paper to be discussed in class

* Please submit all written assignments using Turnitin.com

. Instructions on how to use this resource

are found at: http://www.sfu.ca/itservices/plagiarism/tumitin.htm

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REQUIRED READINGS:

• Education 100W-3 D2 (Instructor: K.Marken) Custom Courseware readings package available at

the SFU bookstore

Students in all Faculty of Education courses are encouraged to review policies pertaining to academic

integrity available on the Undergraduate Programs website:

http://www.educ.sfu.ca/ugradprogs/student

—resources/index.html.

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