Educ. 240-3 Social Issues in Education 

FALL, 1982 

Tuesday/Thursday 

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. 

(plus 1 hr. of tutorial 

per week) 

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Mike Manley-Casimir 

LOCATION: on campus 

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION: 

Social functions of the school; societal trends affecting the 

institutions and practices of education. 

RANGE OF TOPICS: 

The course will focus on the school as a social institution and 

ten 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, account- 

ability, sex-role stereotyping, compulsory education, reform 

and reaction in education. 

REQUIREMENTS: 

1.

Tutorial participation 

2.

Term paper (10 - 12 pages in length) 

3.

Final exam (probably take-home) 

TEXTS: 

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

and Winston, 1973. (Paperback) 

Randle W. Nelsen and David A. Nock, Reading, Writing and Riches 

97 Victoria Street N., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: 

Between the Lines. (Paperback) 

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppresse4, McGraw Hill. (Paperback) 

Brian Wren, Education for Justice. London: SCM Press, 1977. 

(paperback). 