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Special Information:The program in History of Education in the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Professions is offering the course noted below.
This is an UNDERGRADUATE course.
FALL 2009
EDUCATION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM:
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION E55.0610 (CALL #: 43718) is cross-listed with E52.0552 (CALL # 43719)
M/W 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Professor Joan Malczewski, Instructor
Course Overview:
This course will examine the role of education in American society.
Specifically, the course will consider different conceptions of democracy, community, and the relationship between public schooling and the promotion of democratic ideals. Students will explore some of the central goals and purposes of American public education over the past two centuries, and the historiographical debates about those goals and purposes. In the second half of the course, students will explore the relationship between schooling and civic education, and between schooling and specific communities, in order to ask whether the goals of schooling might promote or contradict the goals of particular groups who seek to benefit from public education, and the ways in which education does or does not promote democratic ideals.
The objectives of the course are to:
* Consider theoretical conceptions of democracy and their relationship to education.
* Develop an understanding of educational history.
* Analyze the changing goals and purposes of American education, given its evolution in social and historical context.
* Explore the relationship between education and civic engagement.
* Gain a deeper knowledge of contemporary policy issues, examining the way in which debates have been shaped by historical context, and evolving conceptions of democracy and education.
