EDUC 714

Student Learning Objectives

​Objectives are that students should emerge from the course with:

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KNOWLEDGE:

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• A sophisticated critical understanding of the socio-cultural forces at work in the governing and practice of schooling.

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• an appreciation of current issues and debates in the institutional culture of schools.

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• The problematizing of some dominant discourses of school culture.

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• The development of personal positions on a selected range of issues in the socio-cultural context of schooling.
   

SKILLS TO BE PRACTICED:

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• Leadership of discussion at a doctoral level of rigor around specific readings and pragmatic issues.

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• Writing a position paper in response to topics with regard to the socio-cultural context of schooling.

 

DISPOSITIONS TO BE FOSTERED:

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• Attitudes of openness to diversity and hospitable responses to people who represent cultural difference

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• Tolerance of different opinions in class discussions and willingness to engage in conversation that disturbs conventional assumptions and provokes creative new practice.

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• Developing reflective and reflexive responses to complex social issues.