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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:
    Instructor ?
    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
    ?
    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).

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