printer friendly pageEDUC 293: Church, State, & Schools: Issues in Education & Religion (AMSTUD 293, RELIGST 293X)
This course will examine interactions between religion and education, focusing on both formal and experiential sites in which people and communities explore, articulate, encounter, and perform religious ideologies and identities. The class will focus on different religious traditions and their encounters the institutions and structures of education in American culture, both in the United States and as it manifests in American culture transnationally.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Kelman, A. (PI)
EDUC 297: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (VPTL 297)
(Same as
LAW 303) This course is co-taught by Tom Ehrlich, GSE, and Mariatte Denman, Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning. It provides doctoral and masters students with an opportunity to focus on teaching and learning along with graduate students from many disciplines throughout the university. Students watch and interview master teachers at Stanford, prepare a syllabus module for a workshop or class they might teach, and learn a range of effective pedagogical methods. The course is open not only to masters students and doctoral students from all schools who expect to work in higher education, but also to students interested in K-12 education, and they may develop a teaching module for use in those schools.
Terms: Win
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Units: 1-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 299: Equity and Schooling
(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:
McDermott, R. (PI)
EDUC 302: Behavior Design: Connecting People to Nature
Students learn Behavior Design and practice applying the methods to change human behavior in measurable ways. In this particular course, all projects will focus on one theme: Connecting people to nature.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Fogg, B. (PI)
EDUC 303: 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: Spr
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Forssell, K. (PI)
EDUC 305: 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: Aut
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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.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
EDUC 306B: The Politics of International Cooperation in Education
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:
Bromley, P. (PI)
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Reddy, M. (TA)
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
EDUC 306Y: Economic Support Seminar for Education and Economic Development
Core economic concepts that address issues in education in developing and developed countries. Supply and demand, elasticity, discount rates, rate of return analysis, utility functions, and production functions. Corequisite: 306A. (Carnoy)
Terms: Aut
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Units: 1
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
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