printer friendly pageEDUC 306D: World, Societal, and Educational Change: Comparative Perspectives (EDUC 136, SOC 231)
Theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the structural and cultural sources of educational expansion and differentiation, and on the cultural and structural consequences of educational institutionalization. Research topics: education and nation building; education, mobility, and equality; education, international organizations, and world culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
EDUC 306Y: Economic Support Seminar for Education and Economic Development
Core economic concepts that address issues in education in developing and developed countries. Supply and demand, elasticity, discount rates, rate of return analysis, utility functions, and production functions. Corequisite: 306A. (Carnoy)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Souza Cruz, T. (PI)
EDUC 310: Sociology of Education: The Social Organization of Schools (EDUC 110, SOC 132, SOC 332)
Seminar. Key sociological theories and empirical studies of the links between education and its role in modern society, focusing on frameworks that deal with sources of educational change, the organizational context of schooling, the impact of schooling on social stratification, and the relationships between the educational system and other social institutions such as families, neighborhoods, and the economy.
EDUC 318X: The Discourses of Teaching Reading
Students examine language, social relationships, and students' textual sense-making to further develop their conceptions of reading comprehension and their pedagogical practice as reading teachers. What it means to comprehend text; how classroom discourse matters in the development of textual understanding; and what understandings, purposes, and relationships should matter in classroom talk about text. Field work in which students facilitate small group text discussions for the duration of the quarter at a location of their choice.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Aukerman, M. (PI)
EDUC 322: Community-based Research As Tool for Social Change:Discourses of Equity in Communities & Classrooms (AFRICAAM 130, CSRE 130, EDUC 123X)
Issues and strategies for studying oral and written discourse as a means for understanding classrooms, students, and teachers, and teaching and learning in educational contexts. The forms and functions of oral and written language in the classroom, emphasizing teacher-student and peer interaction, and student-produced texts. Individual projects utilize discourse analytic techniques. Prerequisite: graduate status or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Ball, A. (PI)
EDUC 323A: The Practice of Education Policy Analysis
Key issues in the K-12 education policy. Modern theories about the making of policy and its implementation. Preparation to do policy analysis in education.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Brazer, S. (PI)
EDUC 324X: The Ecology of Equality
A biweekly, one-hour workshop that meets throughout the full academic year. Designed for doctoral students and explores a range of issues pertaining to equity and equality in the United States and globally. Takes an interdisciplinary approach and intended for those who desire a deeper exploration of humanistic, social science and philosophical explanations for existing conditions, crises, and policies in society, as they pertain to various forms of social inequality--with a particular focus on race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Carter, P. (PI)
EDUC 325A: Proseminar 1
Required of and limited to first-year Education doctoral students. Core questions in education: what is taught, to whom, and why; how do people learn; how do teachers teach and how do they learn to teach; how are schools organized; how are educational systems organized; and what are the roles of education in society?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Carnoy, M. (PI)
;
Goldenberg, C. (PI)
EDUC 325B: Proseminar 2
Required of and limited to first-year Education doctoral students. Core questions in education: what is taught, to whom, and why; how do people learn; how do teachers teach and how do they learn to teach; how are schools organized; how are educational systems organized; and what are the roles of education in society?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Lotan, R. (PI)
;
Schwartz, D. (PI)
EDUC 325C: Proseminar 3
Required of and limited to first-year Education doctoral students. Core questions in education: what is taught, to whom, and why; how do people learn; how do teachers teach and how do they learn to teach; how are schools organized; how are educational systems organized; and what are the roles of education in society?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
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