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EDUCATION 488-4

EDUCATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Intersession1

Tuesday and Thursday

Tuesday and Thursday

2:40 - 4:50 p.m. MPX 7600 and 7504

This course is designed for students in the 1988 Spring Entry Elementary Modules of

P.D.P. It is intended to be an issues course, with a lecture/seminar format.

The course will form a bridge between 401/402 and 405. It will enable students to

retain their module commitments, while reading, listening, discussing and writing

about seminar issues relating to elementary education today. The lectures will be

primarily given by faculty members. Topics of the lectures already booked include;

- multicultural education

- discipline based art education

- whole language

- the curriculum landscape

- mainstreaming

- neurolinquistic discoveries

- the hidden curriculum in our schools

- objectives and education.

Other topics expected to be covered will include ethics and philosophy of education,

the politics of education, and technology and education.

The seminars composition will follow module lines, and the instructors for this

part will be the appropriate Faculty Associates. The following staffing pattern has

been designed:

Early Childhood Education

Elementary Generalist

Sherry Sprungman

Diversity in Education

Corinne Broderick

While this course is for module students, the lectures are open to other students

and the public.

Assignments

Students will be expected to:

a)

attend lectures and participate in seminars

b) read assigned papers

c)

give at least one oral critique of a lecture

d)

write two major papers