The focus is on administering media centers in modern school settings. Each student must pass an exit examination, the Praxis II Assessment for Library Media Specialist, before he or she is eligible to receive the M.L.M. degree. Upon successful completion of the M.L.M. program, the student will be recommended for State of Georgia professional certification. This course provides an overview of major behavioral, cognitive, and sociohistorical approaches to learning, with consideration of learning across the lifespan. Sources for individual differences in learning are discussed.
Students learn ways to enhance and stimulate opportunities for democratic schooling.
Topics address teaching for social action through community service, critical literacy, multiculturalism, and postcolonialism. Students explore educational reforms in relation to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, and diversity within a democratic framework. Emphasis is placed on examining the economic, political, and social frames that affect the quality of education within a multicultural, social reconstructionist perspective. Students analyze the roles of schools in the social order from the perspectives of the humanities and the social sciences. Students study research methods, procedures, and designs.