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EDUCATION 240-3: SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION

Fall Session, 1990 ?

Instructor: Frank Koop

Location: ?

Northern Lights College

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Phone:

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785-6717

Dawson Creek Campus ?

785-6981

Friday, 9:00 - 12:00

Fort St. John Campus

Monday & Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:00

OBJECTIVES

1.

To encourage students to develop a more profound understanding of

schooling as a social institution.

2.

To study the effects current social issues are having on the structure

and function of the school systems across Canada and

particularly in

B.C.

3.

To apply informed analytical skills to former notions about schooling

and to think creatively about the application of recent research in

education.

PROCEDURE.

The course will consist of: lectures by both the instructor and selected

guests, group discussions and analyses of pertinent topics, issues and ideas,

a panel discussion by representatives of a variety of local stakeholders in

our school system, and the use of other resources such as films, etc., that

will stimulate discussion and promote the broadening of our perspective on

issues impacting on educational institutions.

TOPICS

-Accommodating a Cultural Mosaic in Education

-Economic Imperatives

-Values Education

-Human Rights Issues

-Ownership

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of Education - Public/Private

-Technological Impacts

-Demaxids of the Stakeholders

-Professionalism of Educators

-Educating for Tomorrow - "Year 2000" document

-Equal Opportunity in Education

-Educating for Responsible Citizenship

READING MATERIALS

Ratna Ghosh & Douglas Ray, eds., Social Change and Education in Canada.

Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Canada, 1987.

British Columbia Ministry of Education (1990). Year 2000: A Framework for

Learning.