This highly interactive class stresses both knowledge as a person and as a leader, and an awareness of interactions as part of a multiglobal world. Specific topics such as communication, motivation, self-esteem, and value development are addressed. After completing this class, students should be able to increase their personal and leadership knowledge in life skill areas, become familiar with The University of Iowa and its resources as an organizational model, and develop competencies to become a leader in a multiglobal world. The course is taught by a full-time staff person who is experienced in leadership development. The course is a survey of American educational history, with emphasis on conflicting historical interpretations of pivotal events and educational movements.
Students write historical research papers in consultation with the professor.
Class sessions are conducted in a lecture-discussion format. This course provides students the opportunity to get to know John Dewey, through an in-depth study of some of his major philosophic and educational writings. How We Think, School and Society, Child and Curriculum , and Experience and Education . The class format is discussion and lecture. The focus of this course, which is required for teacher certification, is on social factors such as discrimination, diversity, equity, racism, sexism, and ethnic and socioeconomic pluralism and their influence on American schools and classrooms.