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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

TEACHING ABOUT JUSTICE, LAW & CITIZENSHIP

Office: EDB 8667?

E-mail: cassidy@sfu.ca

Thursday 17:30-21:20 in EDB 7500B

PREREQUISITE:

60 credit hours

Course Description:

This course is geared to practicing and prospective elementary and secondary teachers who wish to

address issues of justice, law and citizenship through the courses they teach and the classroom culture

that they create. These issues are present in almost all curriculum areas, most overtly in Social Studies,

Language arts/English, Career and Personal Planning and Social Responsibility.

The course focuses on the resources, methods and strategies to help students become more legally

literate, more attentive to social justice, and more cognizant of citizen rights and responsibilities.

Participants will engage with such learning strategies as: case study, mock trial, mediation, justice circle,

restorative justice, community-based field study. The course is designed to be highly interactive, and

will involve students conducting a mock trial, mediation and other such simulations and role-plays. The

course also addresses the important dimension of the informal curriculum and how teachers can model,

practice and support justice, care, and democratic processes.

Course Requirements:

Community-based Resource Investigation

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15%

Short Paper (1500 words) ?

15%

Group Project ?

10%

Mock Trial or Moot Appeal participation ?

20% ?

Major Project: Developing a classroom-based

learning resource

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30%

Attendance & Participation in class ?

10%

Required Text/Readings:

Cassidy, W. & Yates, R. (2005). Once upon a crime: Using stories, simulations and mock trials to

explore justice and citizenship in elementary school. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd.

Richardson, G. H. & Blades, D. W. (Eds.) (2006). Troubling the canon of citizenship education. New

York: Peter Lang.

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