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    FACULTY OF EDUCATION
    4-435 Education Theory and Theory Criticism
    Rriice
    McPher
    This course will examine a number of topics in educational theory.
    The main works of theory will he read and discussed in the context of
    educational settings and of the society. Topics will include: liberal
    education; neo-Freudians in education; curriculum theories of the 1960's;
    educational conservatism of the 1970
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    s; the philosophical underpinnings
    of education reform movements; alternative schools; the "romantic" critics;
    education for political and cultural change.
    Reading List:
    * Bowles, Samuel and Gintis, Herbert, Schooling in Capitalist
    America, Basic Books.
    Bruner, Jerome, The Process of Education, Vintage.
    • Freire, Pulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Seabury Press.
    • Dewey, John, Experience
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    Education, Collier Books.
    • Gibbons, Maurice, The New Secondary Education, PDK.
    • Illich, Ivan, Deschooling Society, Harper and Row.
    • Kohl, Herbert, The Open Classroom, NYRB.
    * Neill, A. S., Surmrierhill, Hart Publishers.
    • Oliver, Donald, Education and Community, McCutchan.
    • Skinner, B. F., Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Bantam/Vintage.
    • Toffler, Alvin, Learning for Tomorrow. Vintage Books.
    * (available in Annex Bookstore)
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    in the field of curriculum development. It will be carried on generally
    in three successive contexts.--,.
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    reflective analysis of a case or set of questions based on the
    general topic under consideration for the week. This will be
    done individually or in small groups of three to five students.
    The "product" of this reflection will be written notes, an outline,
    or brief paper to be handed in after the section.
    2.
    Generally this will be followed by large group case discussions to
    to pool and clarify issues. Occasionally, there will be films,
    guest lecturers and discussion leaders.
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    Sections (in groups of about 25 students .
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    a faculty member).
    These will be used to follow-up large group discussion, lecture,
    or film. In the latter part of the course, they will be used for
    special small-group reports.
    B. ReguLrements
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    Written reflective analysis of case materials presented on a
    weekly basis (either individually or in small groups)
    2.
    small group reports to sections on special topics during a latter
    part of the course. (Each section will be divided into four to
    six small groups-both for this purpose and to do casanalYSiS in the
    large group).
    3.
    Structured paper due at the end of the course.
    Half of the paper will deal with issues on which all students will
    write; half of the paper will deal with a topic of the student's
    own choosing -- hopefully an effort to integrate past experience with
    issues discussed in the course.
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    Personal Growth and Self-Awareness
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    Development as the Aim of Education
    3 "Natural Man" as the Basis of Education
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    The Curriculum Revolution of the 1960's
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    Educational Evaluation (Education as a Science)
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    Dialogue
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    The Hidden Curriculum
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    Alternative Schools
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    De-Schooling
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    Curriculum for "Developing" Cultures
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    Education and Conmunity
    Brown, George, Confluent Education, Viking Press.
    •-Belanger/Purpel, Curriculum & the Cultural Revolution. McCutchan.
    Rousseau, The Emile. (selections, trans. Boyd), classics in Education /110.
    Teachers College, Columbia.
    Neil,
    A.S. Summerhill, A radical Approach to Childrearing, Hart Publishers.
    Lilich, Ivan, Deschooling Society. Harrow, Harper & Row.
    Illich, Ivan
    et al.,
    After Deschooling What? Perennial Library, Harper & Row.
    Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Seabury Press.
    Bruner, Jerome,The Process of Education. Vintage, Knoff.
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    Dreeben, Robert, On What is Learned in Schools. Addison-Wesley.
    Nisbet,
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    Robert, The Quest for Communit
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