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Course description:
EDUC 2110. Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education. This course engages students in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. Students will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational settings in Georgia and the United States. Students will actively examine the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside the school. Against this backdrop, students will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy. EDUC 2110 includes ten hours of field experience.
This course engages students in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. Students will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational settings in Georgia and the United States. Students will actively examine the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside the school. Against this backdrop, students will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy.
Course purpose:
The course is designed as a fundamental study, which forms the basis for future learning in teacher education and provides an orientation to teaching as a profession. It is here that the student gets exposure to the classroom and educational issues from the perspective of a future teacher. The course provides students opportunities to analyze many issues that are a part of our educational system. As a result, some students may learn that teaching is not for them. This is one of the purposes of the course, for it is advantageous to the student to make this decision early in his/her career.
This course has been designed to engage your brain and requires critical thinking and reflective thought concerning a variety of educational issues. It is important to note that there are no solid answers to most educational issues faced in our society. Therefore, your work in this class will reflect individual and personal responses and supported rationales. Each student will not respond to a particular educational issue in the same manner as another student; and this is normal, desired, and expected. There are no "correct" answers. Critical and thoughtful responses to most educational questions are the norm. The quality of your responses and going beyond the bare minimum will yield better grade results.
