EDST 240
Fall 2023
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01
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This course will use sociocultural lenses to examine, unpack, and trouble traditional understandings of youth and adolescence--or how society determines, monitors, and polices how human beings move towards and then reach adulthood. We will use various critical theoretical frameworks to study the assumptions placed on young people by different institutions and systems and the ways those assumptions control how, where, and who young people are allowed to be. Such an exploration is vitally important for the study of education because so much time is spent thinking about what and how young people should learn without ever really considering how we learn what a "youth" is thought to be. This course seeks to let go of normative modes of approaching and understanding the idea of "development" to better appreciate the myriad of ways that young people experience the process of moving toward adulthood. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS EDST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (EDST-MN)(EDST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sample readings include the following:
Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research (Riele and Brooks)
Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies (Best)
Decolonizing Educational Research (Patel)
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up (Lareau)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will be evaluated on the following:
Weekly class participation and discussion
Weekly online group journals
Research Methods Portfolio
Survey Assignment
Observation Assignment
Interview Assignment
Mid-semester discussion exam
End of semester term paper investigating a methodological dilemma of student¿s choosing in consultation with instructor |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course will satisfy the Category 2 requirement for the EDST major and minor. |
| Instructor(s): Stiegler,Sam Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: SCIE113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 10 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 6 | FR: 6 |
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