printer friendly pageEDUC 299: Educating for Equity and Democracy
(Formerly
EDUC 167.) Introduction to the theories and practices of equity and democracy in education. How to think about teaching and schooling in new ways; the individual moral and political reasons for becoming a teacher. (STEP)
Terms: Sum
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Units: 2
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Brooks, M. (PI)
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Gray, S. (PI)
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McDermott, R. (PI)
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Patterson, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Brooks, M. (PI)
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Gray, S. (PI)
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McDermott, R. (PI)
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Patterson, A. (PI)
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Poza, L. (PI)
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Raley, J. (PI)
EDUC 301X: Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Schools (LINGUIST 253A)
The Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Language in Schools is a new School of Education initiative that examines the profound and enduring relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in education in the U.S. and elsewhere. The seminar brings together an inderdisciplinary group of leading scholars and graduate students in language in education to address the role of race and ethnicity in a host of complex and controversial language educational issues that cut across the areas of practice, policy, and pedagogy.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 1-4
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Alim, H. (PI)
EDUC 302X: Incentives In Education
Seminar. Theoretical and empirical literatures from psychology and economics that focus on group and individual incentives and their potential effects. Emphasis is on seminal experiments in psychology and the recent wave of economic field experiments that test the how individual incentives affect educational outcomes and intrinsic motivation.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 1-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 303X: Designing Learning Spaces
Project-based. How space shapes personal interactions and affords learning opportunities In formal and informal settings. How to integrate learning principles into the design of spaces and develop a rubric to assess the impact on learning.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Forssell, K. (PI)
EDUC 304X: Critical Theory and Pedagogy
The course samples the work of Critical Theory, proper, critical theory more generally, and critical pedagogy in the schools, as it draws on the educational consequences of a school of thought. The project of critical theory is examined in light of the curricular applications that it has inspired and the scholarly implications of studying education in this seemingly critical theoretical manner. Students will evaluate a particular curricular point of application of these related theoretical developments.
Terms: Win
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Units: 1-5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Willinsky, J. (PI)
EDUC 305X: A Political Economy of the Mind
This course seeks categories and procedures for the appreciation, description, analysis, and reorganization of people in difficult circumstances. Examples from the history of fiction and classic political economy are used to explore the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches. In depth attention to individual lives and daily struggles give fiction and economic theory more appropriately positive views of people without the advantages of schooling than most educational research. Readings include fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Hurston, and Morrison and economic visions from Smith, Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and Galbraith.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
McDermott, R. (PI)
EDUC 306A: Economics of Education in the Global Economy
Case material considers development problems in the U.S. and abroad. Discussion sections on economic aspects of educational development. (SSPEP/ICE)
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 306B: Politics, Policy Making, and Schooling Around the World
Education policy, politics, and development. Topics include: politics, interests, institutions, policy, and civil society; how schools and school systems operate as political systems; how policy making occurs in educational systems; and theories of development.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Russell, S. (PI)
EDUC 306C: Political Economy of the Mind
Theories of political economy related to theories of the learning mind, emphasizing theories of genius. Readings from Pascal, Defoe, Smith, Balzac, Emerson, Marx, Veblen, Joyce, and Morrison. (SSPEP)
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 306D: World, Societal, and Educational Change: Comparative Perspectives (EDUC 136, SOC 231)
Theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the structural and cultural sources of educational expansion and differentiation, and on the cultural and structural consequences of educational institutionalization. Research topics: education and nation building; education, mobility, and equality; education, international organizations, and world culture.
Terms: Win
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Units: 4-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
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