Sociology of Education
SOC 273
Fall 2011
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01
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| Certificates: Civic Engagement, The Study of Education |
| Course Cluster: Service-Learning |
This course will address the role of power, culture, race/ethnicity, gender, and class on the development of schools as a social institution and within school dynamics and pedagogy. We will cover the following topics: philosophical debates about pedagogy with readings from Dewey, Piaget, Skinner, Bruner, and Friere; the origins of schools as an institution; the organization of schools with readings about tracking, charter schools, private schools, and school vouchers; the influence of power and political movements on both the explicit and hidden curriculum; educational reforms such as progressive education, the back-to-basics movement, the whole-language movement, the standards movement, and high-stakes testing; and the influence of language, labeling, cultural capital, and social capital on student learning. We also will examine international differences in schools and schooling. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Effective Citizenship, Intercultural Literacy |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: SOC151 OR SOC152 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (SOC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selections from:
1. The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips
2. The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
3. The Trouble With Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education by Pedro Noguera
3. Democracy and Education by John Dewey
4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
5. Ideology and Curriculum by Michael W. Apple
6. How Schools Work by Rebecca Barr and Robert Dreeben
7. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau
8. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough
9. In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization by Deborah Meier
10. The Critical Sociology of Education Reader
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three papers, reading journal, school observations and tutoring in local schools |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This class will have a service-learning component where students will observe and tutor in two different schools: either a high- and low-income school or a traditional and a charter school. |
| Instructor(s): Long,Daniel A. Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: ALLB103; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 30 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 5 | FR: 5 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 12 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 7 |
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