ED 580 - School,Diversity & Society

Institution:

Wagner College

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Description:

One unit. This capstone course, part of the senior Level Learning Community, is an advanced level course designed to enhance students' skills as refl ective practitioners and transformative intellectuals. The course will provide preprofessional student teachers with an analytic framework to undertake an interdisciplinary analysis of the school-society relationship. The course provides students with an opportunity to refl ect on their understanding of educational issues and concepts as they work in the fi eld. Using this experience and their knowledge of educational issues students will discover how and why certain school-society issues arose in this country and then changed over time. While this course will take students' practice as central, it will cover the following: school laws; an examination of diversity issues; advanced study of the philosophical and sociological foundations of American education; current reform efforts; and professional development issues. Prerequisite: Concurrent with ED 550/560. Offered Fall/Spring.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wagner.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 390-3100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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