ESS 34650 - Education in Our Time

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Education

Description:

To think historically about the contemporary educational processes, the class permits students to reflect over the changing character of the current profession. The social, institutional and subjective contexts are, in this sense, important elements to analyze. In this way, students are permitted to analyze tendencies, ideas, actors, and projects that have transcended time and have resonated up to our time, helping the comprehension and elaboration of proposals of the actual educational reality. Equally important is the contribution to the construction of a professional identity. To stop in the educational experiences of the past, analyze them critically and explain them emphatically gives origin to a reflective scene about what professors should do, their discourses, identities, tensions, and propositions. The past experiences invite us to understand the present and also to plan the professional work of the future. This course seeks to analyze and reflect from the perspective of the history of education, the educational process most relevant to the contemporary history. We will start with a general panorama of the educational evolution in western history and later focus on the Latin American processes, and in part the history of Chilean education. Consequently, the study of Education in Our Time contains a projective sentiment that permits future educators to learn that education is an interdependent process and a collaborator in the construction of their historical reality.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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