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EDUC. 240-3 SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION

FALL, 1985

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Mike Manley-Casimir

Mondays and Wednesdays,

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LOCATION: Images Theatre

10:30 - 11:20 and 1 hour

tutorial per week

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 examining: the

social forces impinging on the school; educational policy and issues of justice

particularly questions of equality of educational opportunity; structural

sources of injustice, e.g., sex-role stereotyping, institutional racism, the

effect of social class on school learning and school based processes; education

as liberation and Paulo Friere's ideas of developing critical consciousness.

REQUIREMENTS:

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Tutorial participation with 2-3 associated short assignments.

2. Cumulative project.

REQUIRED TEXTS:'-

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

1973. (paperback)

Brian Wren. Education for Justice, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1977.

(paperback)

Paulo Freire. Education for Critical Consciousness, John Wiley (paperback).