Legal and policy issues related to recruitment, selection, and staff development are discussed. Basic concepts involved in modern educational supervision. A service course to serve the requirements of administrative positions or of curriculum specialists. All of these topics are considered with particular reference to the state of Virginia. Every field has its pathfinders, its visionaries, its thinkers.
Education has no less a noble and sometimes colorful history.
Our recent bloodlines include thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, W. E. B. Dubois, Maria Montessori, and William James. Their thoughts, their dreams and their often unspoken assumptions form the foundations of our current educational system. In this interdisciplinary course, participants will use case studies to wrestle with the same practical questions and theoretical debates that fueled the fires of education's great thinkers. They will learn to better grapple with the increasingly complex relationships between school and society, and between education and culture. Most importantly, they will be better able to understand, articulate, and argue reasoned opinions on some of the most critical issues in education today.