Spring 2023 - EDUC 100W OL01

Selected Questions and Issues in Education (3)

Class Number: 7325

Delivery Method: Distance Education

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Online

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.

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

  • Reading Response (1 per module = 4) 40%
  • Participation in online discussion (1 per module = 4), graded using a rubric with points 20%
  • Discussion facilitation and summary (one time per student), graded using a rubric with point 20%
  • Reflective analysis of an educational experience (once at end of course), graded using a rubric with point 20%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Sensoy, O. & DiAngelo, R. J. (2017). Is everyone really equal? An introduction to key concepts in social justice education (2nd edition). New York, NY : Teachers College Press.


Davidson, S. F. & Davidson, R. (2018). Potlach as pedagogy: Learning as ceremony. Portage & Main Press.

Other required readings for EDUC 100 will include a combination of journal articles and book chapters that have been selected to support the aims of this course. These journal articles can be downloaded each week from Canvas.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website 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