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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.

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