printer friendly pageEDUC 329X: Seminar on Teacher Professional Development
For master¿s and doctoral students. Theories, principles, and models of professional development. Issues include: different conceptions of teacher, practice, and development; what gets developed in professional development; pedagogies of professional development; structures to support teacher learning; evaluating professional development; and policy issues. Field observation.
EDUC 333B: Imagining the Future of Learning
How to understand and forecast social, educational, technological trends; how to develop concepts and ideas for engaging learning and technology. Presentations of scenarios for future learning concepts from education, government, technology, business and leisure sectors. Experiments with the research and visioning processes.
EDUC 336: Language, Identity, and Classroom Learning
As contemporary research focuses on how people act and recognize each other, analyzing interaction while acknowledging identity allows for a dynamic examination of cultural interaction. Broad cultural categorization can be overly expansive in identifying the characteristics of large groups of individuals.
EDUC 340: Psychology and American Indian Mental Health
Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance. Topics include: historical trauma; spirituality and healing; cultural identity; values and acculturation; and individual, school, and community-based interventions. Prerequisite: experience working with American Indian communities.
EDUC 341X: Urban School System Reform
Strategies for large-scale reform of complex school systems. Case studies of urban school systems. Sources include approaches developed in management studies, organizational behavior, and school reform. Political and community contexts; the role of urban superintendents and administrators in creating reform strategies. Factors such as labor relations and the regulatory environment. Guest speakers.
EDUC 342: Child Development and New Technologies
Focus is on the experiences computing technologies afford children and how these experiences might influence development. Sociocultural theories of development as a conceptual framework for understanding how computing technologies interact with the social ecology of the child and how children actively use technology to meet their own goals. Emphasis is on influences of interactive technology on cognitive development, identity, and social development equity.
EDUC 344: Child Development and Schooling
How the practices and activities of schooling influence the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children. Metatheoretical approaches (mechanistic, organismic, developmental contextualist metamodels) and methods of conducting research on schooling and development (experimental, survey, ethnographic, intervention). Topics: how teaching practices influence cognitive growth in academic domains; how the organizational structures of schools (grade related transitions, class organizations) fit or fail to fit developmental needs; how friendship groups create contexts for learning and can lead to different trajectories of development; and how grading and other evaluative practices influence motivational orientations. Focus is on elementary school years. (PSE)
EDUC 348X: Policy and Practice in Science Education
Values and beliefs that dominate contemporary thinking about the role and practice of science education, what the distinctive features of science are, and the arguments for its value as part of compulsory education. Research on the conceptual and affective outcomes of formal science education, how the changing nature of contemporary society challenges current practice, and the rationale for an alternative pedagogy, curriculum and assessment.
EDUC 350A: Psychological Studies in Education
Required of first-year doctoral students in Psychological Studies; others by consent of instructor. Introduction to the doctoral program in Psychological Studies in Education and to faculty and student research. (PSE)
EDUC 350C: Psychological Studies in Education
Individual research projects in a group context. (PSE)
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