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.
Preparation of research abstracts in education and related fields is included. This course provides an overview of the research methods and philosophy of practitioner self-study. Focuses on the process, services, and criteria for the selection of various material formats. Includes examination of selection tools, problems of copyright, and censorship. Students focus on the study and evaluation of basic reference sources including electronic databases.