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Apr 19, 2024
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EDCS 5100 - Introduction to Critical Studies in Education
Examines how educational systems are situated within the context of culture, knowledge, the economy, media and power. Utilizing interdisciplinary sources, explores the relationship between school and society with interpretive, normative, and critical theories and methods. Applies critical and cultural theories to deconstruct the socio-cultural influences and hegemony acting upon and utilizing education; the implications of those factors on the purposes of education, how we educate, foster student engagement and create successful learning communities in school and beyond will be examined. Attention given to contemporary dimensions and dynamics that intersect and impact education today, i.e., youth culture, marginalized voices, and popular media and culture. Examines several alternative theoretical and pedagogical approaches that have the potential to more closely fulfill the democratic ‘promise’ that education can indeed, make a difference in individual lives and create more socially just people, schools, communities and world.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Become familiar with how contemporary youth and popular cultures manifest themselves in education today fostering or impeding the importance of “voice” for those heretofore with little ¿voice¿ or agency in their own education.
- Seek ways for educators, parents and community members to create and support schools that provide each student, regardless of background, with a high quality educational experience that addresses their unique learning and social needs.
- Situate and identify competing social forces impacting education, schooling and society today, and our potential responses to their impacts in order to provide more equitable education.
- Understand an educator’s ethical commitment to be a change agent to create schools and classrooms that live up to the ideals of our democracy.
- Understand the important role of theory in analyzing and addressing educational purposes, processes and outcomes, and in particular, examining contemporary education.
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