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    Education 240-3
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    Social Issues in Education
    Instructor: A. Luke
    Location: On Campus
    Spring Semester 1984
    Monday/Wednesday 8:30-9:20
    (plus 1 hour tutorial per week)
    OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this course are: 1) to provide a broad base of
    information about schooling as a social institution, with specific focus on
    B.C. and Canada; 2) to outline background information and points of view on
    contemporary public and professional controversies about the aims and practices
    of public schools; and 3) to provide foundational perspectives on these issues.
    The primary aim of the course is the development by each student of a coherent
    and justifiable critical perspective with which to identify and analyze debates
    on edüëàtional issues.
    FORMAT: The course combines lectures, film and videotape presentations, guest
    speakers, with weekly seminars.
    TOPICS include:
    An introduction to the educational field' in British Columbia.
    What is a "social issue"? Consensus and conflict over the aims
    and practices of public schooling.
    Schooling as a social institution: ritual, socialization, cultural
    reproduction, and the "hidden cur'i'culum".
    Schooling in Multicultural society: ihstitutionalraism.
    Academic and occupational equality for Womei.
    Social class, social justice and the provision of "school knowledge".
    Curricular form and content: the issue of Canadian control.
    Standardized Testing: minimum competence, accountability, centralization.
    Teacher rights and politics.
    Radical alternative: Freirian pedagogy.
    The aims and structures of post-secondary education.
    REQUIRED TEXTS: Cusick, Phillip. Inside High School. Holt Rinehart, Winston, 1973.
    Freire, Paulo. Education for Critical Consciousness. Seabury, 1978.
    Selected articles from journals.
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    Apple, Michael. Ideology and Curriulum. Routledge, 1979.
    Wilson, J. D. Canadian Education in the 1980's. Detselig, 1981.
    In addition to the two required texts, there will be a charge for articles handed out
    in class. Weekly readings will also be available on reserve.
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Students will be expected to complete assigned readings and to
    participate in seminar discussions. Three major assignments will be required: a short
    mid-term paper (5-7 pages); a short research paper (5-7 pages); and a take-home final
    essay examination.
    NO PREREQUISITE COURSES ARE REQUIRED.

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