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COURSE NUMBER:
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Education 240
COURSE NAME:
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Social Issues in Education
SEMESTER:
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Summer, 1976
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION: ?
Social functions of the school; societal
trends affecting the institutions and practices
of education.
COURSE INFORMATION:
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Dates
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Day(s)
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Time
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Place
Mike Manley-Casimir May 10 -
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Monday &
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11:30 a.m. -
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AQ 9002
August 6
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Wednesday ?
12:20 p.m.
Range of Topics:
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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,
accountability, sex-role stereotyping, compulsory
education, and alternatives in education.
Required Reading:
Philip A. Cusick, Inside High School (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1973). Paperback.
George, Martell, The Politics of the Canadian Public School (Toronto: James,
Lewis and Samuel, 1974). Paperback.
John Eisenberg and Gailand MacQueen, Don't Teach That (General Publishing
Co., 1972). Paperback.
Anthony Burton, The Horn and the Beanstalk (Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1972). Paperback.
William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style. (New York: MacMillan,
1972). Paperback.
Requirements:
(1)
Tutorial participation.
(2)
Term paper 3 pages in length.
(3)
Mid-term and final exams (probably take-home).