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    Education 487-4
    Critical Incidents in Teaching: The Teacher as
    Decision Maker
    Summer Semester, 1985
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    INSTRUCTORS: Drj N'; Manley-Casimir
    Dr. S. Wassermann
    Wednesdays, 5:30 - 9:20
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    LOCATION: MPX 8542
    This course is offered for pre-service and in-service teachers who wish to
    examine the various pressures influencing the decision-making processes of
    teachers.
    One of the important aspects of professional functioning is the autonomy of
    professionals to arrive at decisions based upon their sound professional
    judgment. The ability to examine and interpret data, to. analyze assumptions,
    and to project potential consequences is considered a true mark of professional
    functioning.
    In some professions, a variety of pressures -- political, social, emotional,
    personal -- serve to influence professional judgment and consequently to
    influence decision making. Such influence may have a deep and pervasive effect
    upon the degrees of freedom and emotional health of professionals, upon their
    beliefs and values about the profession itself, and upon their subsequent
    professional practice.
    This course will use contemporary film and literature to raise levels of
    awareness about factors influencing teachers' decision making, vis a vis
    examinations of critical incidents in teaching. Students who enroll will engage
    in film viewing, study of specific literature and focused group discussion,
    in order to examine more critically the many facets of the decision-making
    process in education. Through this process, students will become more
    critically aware of personal decision-making in their own professional
    educational context.
    Course Objectives
    (1)
    To increase understanding of the various and complex factors involved in
    the decision-making process.
    (2)
    To increase awareness of factors influencing a teacher's decision making
    process.
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    To promote more critical awareness of personal decision making and the
    consequences of decisions made upon person-in-the-process.
    Texts
    No texts will be required , readings will be distributed.

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