Semester: 97-1
EDUC 240 -3 Social Issues in Education
Thursdays 15:30 - 18:20
Section: D1.00
Instructor: J
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Dawson ?
Office: 8639mpc
Tel: 291-3476
E-mail: Janis_Dawsonsfu.ca
PREREQUISITE
None
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine social issues in education within their historical and cultural contexts.
Topics will include:
• The Origin, Nature, and Purpose of Schooling
• Schooling and Social Control
• Inequalities in Education
• Children, Education, and the Media
• Children without Childhood
• Children at Risk
• Prejudice and Intolerance in Schooling
• Schooling and Assimilation
OBJECTIVES
* To encourage students to think seriously about the nature of education and schooling and to
consider the relationship between education, schooling, and major social, political, and economic
institutions in society.
* To stimulate an interest in the future of education in Canada.
The emphasis in the course will be on (but not limited to) education in Canada. Education will be broadly conceived
and discussion will not be limited to schools and schooling.
REQUIREMENTS
Grading will be based on written assignments and class participation.
REQUIRED READINGS
Gatto, John T. Dumbing Us Down Philadelphia: New Society Publisher
Postman, Neil The Disappearance of Childhood Vintage (Random House)
Webber, Marlene Street Kids University of Toronto (paperback)
Dorris, Michael The Broken Cord Harper Collins
Knockwood, Isabelle Out of the Depths Roseway Publishing, 1992.