4003 Schools in American Cultures. Prerequisite: admission to Teacher Education, Instructional Psychology and Technology 3473, Instructional Psychology and Technology 3483 and Special Education 3054; corequisite Instructional Psychology and Technology 3043. An overview of education as a profession based upon historical and philosophical principles including a treatment of current problems and affairs with specific attention given to multicultural phenomena. (F, Sp, Su)
G5033 Critical Literature in Adult and Higher Education (Crosslisted with Adult and Higher Education 5033). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Explores twentieth-century ideas and issues in adult and higher education. The majority of the literature an discussion concern the university. (Sp)
G5513 Comparative Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introduction to the field of comparative education. Primary objective is to develop an understanding of the field of comparative, international and development education, its primary focus and assumptions, and the intellectual frameworks, theories and paradisms it draws upon in inquiry. (F)
G5523 Education and Poverty. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examination of issues at the intersection of education and poverty including theories, principles, beliefs and values underlying the existence and analysis of poverty. Procedural and policy alternatives which may tend to ameliorate the educational consequences of poverty will be analyzed. (Sp)
G5533 Comparative Educational Policy. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Overview of issues in comparative policy study within education, including various basic understandings regarding the nature of policy and the manners in which beliefs and values are institutionally or organizationally codified. The student will explore a selected topic by contrasting similarities and differences as they exist across varying sociopolitical/cultural contexts. (F)
G5543 Education and National Development. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Through interdisciplinary readings students will develop an understanding of the possibilities and limits of education as an instrument of social change within varying national contexts. Also addresses challenges surrounding issues of gender, class, culture, race, language, ethnicity, and religion and how they are impacted by the provision, form and content of education. (Sp)
G5703 Sociology of Education (Crosslisted with Sociology 5703). Prerequisite: eight hours of education or permission. Social structure in the community wherein the school must operate and the nature of human relations within the school; social processes and patterns involved in the educational system relative to other aspects of our society; and the effect of the school on the behavior and personality of its participants. Lectures, class discussions, audiovisual materials and outside readings, both scientific and literary, portraying the American social scene.
G5753 The Educational Philosophy of John Dewey. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Close critical study of educational thought by John Dewey, his recent critics, his contemporaries, and others who influenced or were influenced by him in a multicultural, gendered, and technologically developing context. Intensive oral and written work will aim at developing continuity between theory and practice in various formal and informal educational settings. (Sp)
G5783 Classics in Educational Thought. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Close critical study of selected "classics" in educational thought by Plato, Rousseau, DuBois, Dewey, Woolf, or others of comparable historical significance for multicultural co-education throughout the human lifespan, in a context of social inequalities. Intensive written and oral practice in basic conceptual skills and informal logic will require independent inquiries on topics of special interest to students. (F)
G5823 Contemporary Critical Thought and Educational Studies. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Close study of contemporary critical thought that has profoundly transformed recent theorizing about education and its various social, cultural, and economic contexts. Major texts selected from philosophical movements such as analysis, existentialism, Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism, neo-pragmatism. Intensive oral and written practice in educational criticism and theory, developing case studies from primary sources. (Sp)
G5833 Gender, Values, and Education (Crosslisted with Philosophy 5833). Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of topic; maximum credit six hours. Topics vary each semester, but are developed from philosophical studies in and about education, politics, ethics, aesthetics, law and religion that address the issues of gender and sexuality. Intensive oral and written theoretical inquiry. (Irreg.)
G5913 Cultural Pluralism and Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Investigates the role of the schools from an interdisciplinary perspective using the philosophy, history, anthropology and sociology of education and cross-cultural analysis, in fostering a climate of ethnic, racial, and gender inclusiveness.
G5933 Girls, Women and Educational Studies. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. History, sociology, and/or philosophy of girls' and women's education in a multicultural context that includes family, work, and community life as well as coeducational public schooling and higher education in the U.S. Oral and written critical inquiry concerning selected primary sources will introduce students to the activity of interdisciplinary theorizing about gender and sexuality in education. (F)
G5943 American Social and Education Issues in Historical Perspective. Prerequisite: graduate standing. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Acquaints students with several diverse culture groups which constitute society in the United States and their placement within the historical context of American education. Educational experience of these groups will be discussed. Class members will integrate their personal narratives into an understanding of education in American culture. (F)
G6010 Writing Educational Inquiry (Crosslisted with Philosophy 6010). 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing, enrollment in Educational Studies graduate course, and permission based on review of writing samples. May be repeated; maximum credit nine hours. Individual or group tutorial study of informal logic and rhetorical theory concerning academic writing as a social practice. Emphasis on contextually appropriate documentation practices, philosophical moves, and rhetorical devices; development of clarity and grace in written formulations of educational concepts and values. Address various scholarly and professional situations. Aimed toward public presentation or publication. (F, Sp)
G6013 Gender, Knowledge and Inquiry (Crosslisted with Philosophy 6013). Prerequisite: graduate standing and Womens' Studies 4003 or equivalent, or any graduate-level course in research methods or philosophy, or three graduate hours in EDFN. Interdisciplinary seminar introducing feminist criticisms of epistemology and exploring their possible significance for design and practices of gender sensitive inquiry in various academic fields and educational contexts. (F)
G6033 Inquiry Design. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. An individual or small group tutorial focused exclusively on preparation of the dissertation or prospectus for interdisciplinary critical or theoretical inquiry in Historical, Philosophical, and Social Foundations in Education. (F)
G6703 Advanced Studies in the History of Educational Thought. Prerequisite: 5753 and 5783, or equivalent and permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit, maximum credit 9 hours. Topical focus. will vary. An individual or group tutorial in which students pursue original inquiries with close guidance and contribute to the delivery of EDS 5753 or 5783. A final paper suitable for public presentation or publication is required. (Sp)
G6763 Issues in Contemporary American Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Backgrounds of the contemporary American social scene with such issues as extension of educational opportunity; interrelationships between church, state, and school; changing economic concepts in the age of technology; purposes of education to social policy; federal aid to education; academic freedom.
G6793 History of American Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Development of schools in American society from colonial times to the present as set against the background of intellectual movements and changes from the colonial period to the present. Attention is given to the development of the organization, administration, finance and curriculum in the American public school system. Major concepts relating to the maintenance of a school in American society are considered; historical treatment of nativism, populism, empiricism, associationism, a person's relation to spiritual and national self, as these topics relate to the development of educational ideals and practices in American society. (Irreg.)
G6903 Colloquium in Contemporary Educational Thought. Prerequisite: 5823 and 5933, or equivalents and permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit, maximum credit nine hours. Topical focus on selected conceptual problems will vary. A colloquium in which students share and practice mutual critique of original inquiries they are pursuing with close guidance. Participation in the delivery of EDS 5823 or 5933 and a final paper suitable for public presentation or publication are required. (F)
G6933 Naturalistic and Qualitative Research in Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Designed to familiarize graduate students in education with naturalistic research and qualitative methodologies. (Irreg.)
G6973 Documentary and Narrative Research. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Examines problems and methods of non-empirical research in education. Use of primary and secondary sources, evidence, generalization, interpretation, documentation, citation, and oral history are discussed. (F)
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