EDUC. 240-3 SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION: 

SPRING, 1982 

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. M. Manley-Casimir 

Tuesday/Thursday 10:30 - 11:20 

(plus 1 hour of tutorial each week) 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 

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, 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. Cusièk, 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 Oppressed, McGraw Hill. (Paperback) 

John Eisenberg and Gailand Macqueen, Don't Teach That, General 

Publishing Co., 1972. (Paperback) 