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A SUMMER SESSION COURSE IN THE 1985 SLT.E. SERIES

Course: Education

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Instructor: Peter NorjjaiI

Times: Tuesday ,

and>F1ursday 5:30 - 930

Room: MPX 76007

'The Illiterate of the future

will not be the (person]

who cannot read,

(he/she) will be the (person]

who has not learned how to learn.'

Herbert Gerjuoy

(as quoted b

y

Alvin Toffler,

Future Shock 1970)

'Sell-education' is but one of a number of labels for a range of teaching/learning

processes which are gathering momentum within the educational community. The term

encompasses a cluster of ideas including life-long learning, preparation for the

information societ

y

, self-directed learning, personal power, autodidactic learning,

to name a few. Whatever the label, the processes of sell-education put the

learner(s) at the centre of decisions about how and what to learn and describe a

systematic approach to the pursuit of excellence.

This course will examine the theor

y

and practice of self-education as the

y

relate to

I) personal and professional growth ii) staff development and iii) school

improvement. The course assumes that all three dimensions (self, others,

organizations) are interconnected and that successful staff development initiatives

pay attention to all three and the dynamic between them. The course will identify

the knowledge, skills and attitudes of self-education and present a framework for

participants to identif

y , design and direct their own professional and staff

development projects.

Current examples of programs based on self-education at all levels, K - Adult, will

be examined with a special emphasis on strategies for staff development. Students

are encouraged to attend the SITE public lecture series and selected training

sessions.

Readings:

A Self-Education Resource Binder containing selections from the work of Malcolm

Knowles, Alan Tough, Maurice Gibbons, Gar

y

Phillips and others will be available at

cost.

Assignments:

Assignments will include readings, a short paper, seminar presentation, and two

self-directed action projects on the theme of staff development.

For further information: 291-4385

FACULTY OF EDUCATION ?