Overview

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:

EDUC 100W is often a student’s first and/or only Education course during their time at SFU. As a faculty, we have agreed on our core values and a broad set of related priorities that gives direction and inspiration to our practices and pedagogies: Equity, Indigeneity and a culture of Inquiry. This course aims to explore the three pillars outlined in the five-year plan through processes of dialogic and dialectic inquiry and critical reflection. We want the students to think broadly about education but particularly focus on the ways that Indigenous and Equity issues are framed and interrogated within the field of education. This focus will be framed through a lens of inquiry and will be explored predominately through the process of writing.

This course is a fully asynchronous online one, meaning we don't have any scheduled class time. To a certain extent, you can work at your own pace. However, there are deadlines for submitted work and online discussion to enable you to both pace your work and develop a sense of community with the other students in the class. I will offer some optional office hours or tutorials via Zoom to support you in your work.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

1. Inquire into the implications of Equity and Indigeneity for learning and learners as well as teaching and teachers.
2. Examine previous and current biases, assumptions, and values in relation to Indigeneity and Equity in Canadian society and educational contexts.
3. Appreciate and explain the aims and goals of including Indigenous worldviews in Canadian educational contexts and how these differ from Western traditions.
4. Develop awareness and knowledge about historical and contemporary Equity issues that surround education.
5. Synthesize information from diverse sources to describe an orientation, clarifying values and convictions.
6. Use both critical and reflexive writing as practices to understand course concepts, oneself, and others.
7. Engage in meaningful and respectful conversation on complex and sensitive topics.

Grading

Materials

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