Summer 2020 - EDUC 100W D200

Selected Questions and Issues in Education (3)

Class Number: 1374

Delivery Method: Distance Education

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 11 – Aug 10, 2020: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

An introduction to a small but representative sample of basic questions and issues in education. Students will examine questions relating to: the concept or idea of education; learning and the learner; teaching and the teacher; and more generally, the broader contexts of education. This course also introduces students to different ways of exploring educational questions and issues from philosophical and critical analysis, to historical and cross-cultural studies, to empirical research. Cannot be taken for credit by students with credit for 300 and 400 level education courses. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

Please be advised that this course will have weekly classes during the above scheduled class time over video conferencing. It is expected that you will attend these meetings as there will be a rich discussion on each of our core topics. Participation in our classes over these conferences will be a part of your participation mark. We will also have a discussion board for furthering our understandings on our topics that will also be a part of our participation marks. 



As an introductory course to Education, we will not only explore the BIG ISSUES in education but also our own relationship to education, as a learner, community member, and prospective educator. The purpose of this course is to further develop our understandings of the complexity of the Canadian educational system, in relation to other countries; understand the BIG issues in education within the BC context; and explore our own questions about education in relationship of self-to-self, self-to-others, and self-to-place. The goals of this course will be three-fold: knowledge acquisition, self-reflection, and application to practice.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

The goals of this class are to probe and extend the way education has been construed and challenges and encourages the student to connect his/her own lived inquiry to ways of knowing which encompass a holistic understanding. A variety of educational philosophies will be examined and the student will be encouraged to expand his/her way of excavating and articulating knowledge and wisdom. It is the hope of this class that students will more deeply connect to education as a place of discovery and a site to unfold their own passions. This class encourages embodied, performative and arts-based approaches to writing.
EDUC 100 is also a "W" course (writing intensive) and, as such, students will learn to identify, analyze, and utilize the typical ways of writing in the discipline.

Grading

  • Attendance/Participation 20%
  • Writing Narrative Pieces, there will be 3-4 40%
  • Final Project in Connection to Ways of Knowing 40%

NOTES:

Please be advised that this course will have weekly classes over video conferencing. It is expected that you will attend these meetings as there will be a rich discussion on each of our core topics. Participation in our classes over these conferences will be a part of your participation mark. We will also have a discussion board for furthering our understandings on our topics that will also be a part of our participation marks. 
Course Text Book is needed for discussions.

REQUIREMENTS:

Details on assignments will be handed out on the syllabus in class. Since this class is based in Indigenous Pedagogy, attendance is of utmost importance.

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

Students must have the required book for the course as we will be discussing it and using it for every class. Please purchase before class begins.

REQUIRED READING:

Sensoy, Özlem. DiAngelo, Robin J.Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction To Key Concepts In Social Justice Education. New York : Teachers College Press, 2012.
ISBN: ISBN-10: 0807758612

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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

TEACHING AT SFU IN SUMMER 2020

Please note that all teaching at SFU in summer term 2020 will be conducted through remote methods. Enrollment in this course acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as soon as possible to ensure that they are eligible and that approved accommodations and services are implemented in a timely fashion.