EDU 6160 Critical Issues in Education
(formerly EDU 616)
This course will examine the critical issues of schooling within the context of the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of today’s society. Through the lens of leadership and while acknowledging the challenge of equity, class participants will consider economic access, educational policies, critical pedagogy, existing teaching and learning programs, as well as models of successful schools and their resources. By historically linking the development of the American system of education to current practice, the purposes of democratic and universal education will be discussed and analyzed. The ways in which schools and institutions of learning are implicated in a continuum of social agendas will be recognized. Additionally, the themes of social mobility, competing goals, evaluation/ assessment, technology and innovation will be woven throughout the course as students share their own experiential knowledge and relate it to research-based educational frameworks in an effort to understand the transformative nature of education and how it may affect student populations and learning outcomes.
Distribution
Education