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EDUCATION 1461-4
TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE:
Subtitle: Summer Institute for Teacher Education (S.I.T.E.)
SUMMER SESSION 1980
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INSTRUCTOR: David Hopkins
Tuesday & Thursday, 12:30 - 4:30
Strategies for School Improvement: In-service in a new context
This is the core course for the S.I.T.E.1980 summer program. The theme of
SITE is "School Improvement" and this course provides an introduction to this
idea and a conceptual and methodological overview the the major issues.
The contemporary thrust in international education towards School Improvement
has as its prime concern the strengthening of the autonomy of the school
particularly in items of its organization, curriculum and the increased
professionalism of its staff.
The course is composed of two elements:
1.
A lecture series given by the international group of scholars who are partici-
pating in SITE and
2.
Seminars immediately following, which will attempt to relate the lectures
to school system needs in Canada.
Each session (I.E. both lecture and seminar) will focus on an aspect of School
Improvement as follows:
1. What is School Improvement?
? David Hopkins
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School Improvement in the '80's. ?
Ray Bolam
3.
Characteristics of the Autonomous School ?
Richard Schmuck
4.
Strategies for School change
5.
School focussed Curriculum Development
6.
Curriculum Evaluation
7.
Curriculum Implementation
8. Current Perspectives on In-service
9.
School focussed In-service
10.
The teacher as a focus of research and
development
11.
Introducing Innovation to Pupils
12. Virtues of Diversity: An eclectic
approach to School Improvement
S.F.U.
U. of Bristol
C.E.P.A.
U. of Oregon
Phillip Runkel
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C.E.P.A.
U. of Oregon
Bruce Joyce
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Booksend Lab.Palo Alt(
Ted Aoki
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U. of Alberta
Ted Aoki ?
as above
Ray Bolam ?
U. of Bristol
Bruce
Joycp
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Booksend Lab.Palo Alt(
Lawrence itenhouse C.A.R.E.
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U. of E. Anglia
Jean Ruddock ?
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Phillip Runçel
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C.E.P.A.
U. of Oregon
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The requirements for the course will include,
i.
participation in and preparation for seminar discussion,
ii.
a seminar presentation and
iii.
a final paper
There are no set books for the course. Readings for each session will either
be provided by the instructor or be found in current periodicals.
Further information about the course can be obtained from David Hopkins in the
Faculty of Education, Building 6, Room 609 or call 291-36114.
EDUCATION 61-
TRENDS PJ'JD DEVELOPMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
LOCATION: HOLIDAY INN-HARBOURSIDE ?
INSTRUCTOR: ROGER GEHLBACH
1133 WEST HASTINGS,
TRAIL ROOM ?
THURSDAYS,
5:30 - 9:20
Trends in public schooling have a way of appearing, disappearing,
and then re-appearing over the years, with re-appearances
only slightly changed from earlier periods. This course
will be devoted to an analysis of approximately the past
fifty years of public schooling with the objective of
determining which changes have been real and which have
been illusory, which have been progressive and which
regressive. Students who complete the course may expect
to emerge with articulate and well-grounded points of view
on major issues of current concern in public education,
including those regarding traditional vs. open modelt of
school design, whole-child vs.
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vs. elitist decision making structures.
Readings (in order of assignment):
BRUNER, Jerome
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The Process of Education
DEWEY, John
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Experience and Education
HOLT, John ?
How Children Fai,l
NEILL, A. S.
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Summerhill
SKINNER, B. F. ?
The Technology of Teaching
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS:
Two papers, one mid-term and one end-of-term, on topics
selected from an instructor-generated list of theoretical and
applied issues in education and schooling.-.
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Papers will be in
the range of 15-20 pages, typewritten and double-spaced.
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COURSE INFORMATION
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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
M.S. O'Connell
An examination and evaluation of current trends and developments
in early childhood education. Among the topics to be explored: the
preschool and the public school; the professional and the non-professional
in early childhood education; the critical years hypothesis; the status
of women in relation to the early childhood years; intellectual devel-
opment as a focus of early childhood education; mass media in the education
of young children; performance contracting; behavioral objectives; stages
of development; individualized and group instruction; the curriculum
for young children; space, materials and equipment; conflicting values
in early childhood education.
OBJECTIVES:
1.
To view current trends and developments in early childhood
education in historical perspective.
2.
To evaluate current trends-and developments in early childhood
education.
3.
To study in depth one aspect of early childhood education.
4.
To describe recent research into a problem in early childhood
education.
5.
To know the literature and the resources in early childhood
education.
REQUIREMENTS:*
1.
React orally to two reviews of a child's book that you have
read critically (by October 26, 1972).
2.
With another student present orally the strengths and weaknesses
of a selected
a)
professional book, or
b)
approach to teaching a subject, or
c)
package or set of materials
(by November 23, 1972)
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3. Present in writing an in-depth study of a selected topic in
early childhood education
a)
a paper on the topic, or
b)
a collection of notes, articles, materials
with an outline of a proposed oral presentation
on the topic
(by December 5, 1972)
EVALUATION:
ORAL ?
(#1 and/or #2) ..................1/3
WRITTEN (#3)
2/3
* Alternative arrangements to fulfill course requirements may be
negotiated with the instructor.
