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    Education 240 - Social Issues in Education
    Fall Term 1979
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    J.R. Covert
    This course will study the ways that Foundations of Education seek to
    understand schooling in relation to its social context. Methodologies of
    Philosophy, Sociology and History will be employed to assist in making sense of
    selected contemporary issues of education. Competing ideologies
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    in an effort to construct a rational framework for examining some of the
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    tent problems of schooling and education.
    Course Outline
    I. Why are there certain persistent Social Problems in Education?
    1. Questions of value.
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    Formal and non-formal education.
    3. Establishing aims of education.
    II. Competing Views'of
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    The allocation function. .
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    Socialization. ?
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    Alternative education.
    III. Relationships between Education and Other Institutions
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    Schooling and the Family.
    2. Education and Religion.
    3.
    School and the Economy
    IV. Schooling and Social Processes
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    Education and Social Mobility.
    2. Education and Authority.
    3.
    Education and Social Change.
    V. Teachers and Teaching
    1. Professionalization.
    2.
    Accountability.
    3.
    Modes of Teaching.
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    Evaluation
    There will be three equal units of evaluation. There will be a common
    Final Exam as well as a Mid-term Exam; both will follow a take-home format. In
    addition, one-third of the final grade will be composed of an evaluative option
    growing from the discussion section.
    Required Text
    Christopher J.°Hurn:, The Limits and Possibilities of Schooling.
    Suggested Texts
    Harry S. Broudy: The Real World of the Public School.
    Joel Spring: American' Education: An Introduction to Social and Political Aspects.
    Related Readings
    1. Broudy: Building a Philosophy of Education.
    2.
    Beck, Jenks, Keddie and Young (eds.): Worlds Apart: Readings for a Sociology
    of Education.
    3.
    Postman & Weingartner: Teaching as a Subversive Activity.
    4. Martin: Canadian Educational Sociological Analysis.
    5.
    Chaiton & McDonald: Canadian Schools and Canadian Identity.
    6.
    Stevenson, Stamp and Wilson: The Best ofTimes/The Worst of Times.
    7.
    Hutchinson: A Sociology of Canadian Education.

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