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    EDUCATION 240
    Social Issues in Education
    Fall Semester, 1978
    Instructor: S. C. de Castell
    CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
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    Social functions of the school; societal trends
    affecting the institutions and practices of
    education.
    RANGE OF TOPICS: ?
    This course will focus on the relation between
    school and society, critically examining the intentions
    of educators, the methods used, and the content
    taught in schools. Some central issues will be
    indoctrination, compulsory education, alternative
    schools, rights in education, equality of opportunity,
    cultural pluralism, racial and sexual discrimination,
    the relation between educational and social change.
    TIME: ?
    Monday and Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:20 a.m.
    REQUIREMENTS: ?
    (1) Tutorial Participation
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    2 short term papers
    (3)
    Final Examination
    TEXTS: ?
    Eisenberg & MacQueen: Don't Teach That General Publishing Co. 1972.
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    Troost, C.F.: Radical School Reform Little Brown & Co.
    Martell, G.: The Politics of the Canadian Public School
    John Lewis & Samuel, 1974.
    Laska, J.: Schooling & Education Van Nostrand, 1976.

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