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EDUCATION 445-4

The Legal Context of Teaching: Contemporary Issues

Summer 1988 Regular Session

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Instructor: Terri Sussel

Tuesdays, 5:30 - 9:20

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Phone: 291-4570

Location: MPX 8651

Prerequisite: Education 40112 or the equivalent of a first year practicum.

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This course is designed to provide education students, teachers, counsellors,

and school administrators with a comprehensive understanding of the legal

issues and potential legal liabilities encountered in the B. C. public school

system. Special attention is devoted to the legal dimensions and

consequences of routine classroom and administrative activity. The following

issues will be explored:

1)

Teacher Discipline and Bill 20

2)

Negligence and Supervisory Activity

3)

Educational Malpractice

4)

Responsibility for Curriculum Fulfillment

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Liability for Student Discipline

6)

Liability Outside School Hours

7)

Sexual Abuse by School Board Employees

8)

The AIDS Controversy and the Role of the School

The course also provides a basic introduction to the legal terminology used in

the lectures and seminars and does not require prior knowledge of the

Canadian legal system or the law.

Required Text:

T. A. Sussel. Issues in Law and Education: A Reader on the Legal Context of

Teaching, (to be distributed in class).

Texts on Reserve:

W. Mackay, Education Law in Canada (Toronto: Montgomery Edmonds, 1984).

M. Manley-Casimir & T. Sussel, Courts in the Classroom (Calgary, Detselig

Press, 1986).