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Fall Semester, 1991
(September 3— November 29)
Monday & Wednesday
2:30-3:20 p.m. (+ Tutorials)
Location: AQ 3154
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 240-3
SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
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Instructor:
Office:
Phone:
Celia Haig-Brown
MPX 8635
291-3459 (office)
291-3395 (messages)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on social issues in education. It provides opportunity for
examining institutional education as interaction between people within historical and
social contexts. It allows students to examine critically the roles that people have
played in the structuring and delivery of education. Sociological approaches to
schooling such as functionalism, reproduction, production, and interpretation will be
integrated into the discussions. Students' own experiences of schooling and their
relationship to the course topics will be emphasized in assignments. It is open to all
undergraduates; there are no prerequisites.
OBJECTIVES
The central goal of this course is to engage students in informed critical discussions of
the purposes and practices of schooling. Students will be introduced to a variety of
perspectives on education and schooling, the influence of history on current social
issues, and the impact of context on conceptualizations of schools, schooling, and
education.
TOPICS
Education as social process; education and culture; immigration and education;
racism, sexism, class bias in education; sociology and education; educational change;
post-modern views of education; British Columbia schools.
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Weekly Journal Entry
20%
One short paper
20%
One mid-term
20%
Term paper or final exam
40%
REQUIRED TEXTS
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia. (1963).
Teacher.
New York: Simon & Schuster.
Gaskell, Jane et al. (1989). Claiming an Education: Feminism and Canadian
Schools.
Toronto: Garamond Press.
Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988). Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian
Residential School.
Vancouver: Pulp Press.
And one of the recommended texts from the bookstore.