COURSE NUMBER: 

Education 240 

COURSE NAME: ? 

Sqcial Issues in Education 

SEMESTER: ? 

Spring, 1977 

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION: 

Social functions of the school; societal 

trends affecting the institutions and practices 

of education. 

COURSE INFORMATION: 

Instructor ? 

Dates ? 

Time ? 

Place 

Mike Manley-Casimir 

?

January 10 - 2.30 p.m. - 

?

AQ 9001 

April 7 ? 

3.20 p.m. 

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, 

accountability, sex-role stereotyping, compulsory 

education, reform and reaction in education. 

Required Reading: 

John Eisenberg and Gailand MacQueen, Don't Teach That (General Publishing 

Co., 1972). Paperback., 

Philip A. Cusick, Inside High School (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 

1973). Paperback. 

Anthony Burton, The Horn and the Beanstalk (Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and 

Winston, 1972). Paperback. 

Rosmary Ganley and Ron Wood, Technology and Change: Crisis in Canadian 

Education (McClelland and Steward Ltd 1975). Paperback. 

George, Martell, The Politics of the Canadian Public School (Toronto: James, 

Lewis and Samuel, 1974). Paperback. 

William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style (New York: MacMillan, 

1972). Paperback. 

Requirements: 

(i)

Tutorial participation 

(ii) 

Term paper (10-12 pages in length). 

(iii) 

Final Exam (probably take-home). 