Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2019 - EDUC 901B G001

Seminar in the History of Educational Theory B (3)

Class Number: 1121

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 3 – Dec 2, 2019: Wed, 7:30–9:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Corequisites:

    EDUC 901A.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A further consideration of concepts explored in the EDUC 901 "A" course, with a view to providing students with opportunities to apply these ideas within their own educational settings.

COURSE DETAILS:

This double-load doctoral seminar (EDUC 901 A and B) is conceived of as a sustained inquiry into ideas, notions, theories, and practices that have animated the history of education. For us as current educational practitioners in various locations of teaching, coaching, guiding, mentoring, and administering, such inquiry is a critical undertaking today. For, whenever social life appears in states of crisis, there arises a need to shift our conceptions of who we are and what our relationships are to the human and more-than-human lifeworlds. Hence, education becomes the site of dialogue and practice-driven experiment in aims of education, meaning and purpose, nature of knowledge, worldviews, and moral values.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

1)     Consider critically the ways in which educational practices have been theorized and how theoretical frameworks have been applied to such practices.
2)     Understand curricular and pedagogical frameworks as heuristics of relational practices within the human and more-than-human world.
3)     Explore reflexivity through embodied practices of self-with-others.

Grading

  • 1. An 'oppositional dualism' that you discern within your work or life space and that creates a felt disjuncture. Describe how this dualism plays out for you. What institutional, inter-personal, and intra-personal practices reinforce it? Consider how this oppositional dualism might be re-cast in relational, attuned, synergistic, and synchronous terms. 30%
  • 2. Class presentation based on a selected course reading. 20%
  • 3. Major paper that addresses the course themes germane to your anticipated doctoral research. Details for this assignment will be delineated in class. 50%

NOTES:


SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.  

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

All the readings and other AV materials required for this course will be made available or locatable to course participants.

RECOMMENDED READING:

A list of recommended readings and AV materials will be supplied to students.

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS