printer friendly pageEDUC 189X: Language and Minority Rights (CHILATST 189W, CSRE 189W)
Language as it is implicated in migration and globalization. The effects of globalization processes on languages, the complexity of language use in migrant and indigenous minority contexts, the connectedness of today's societies brought about by the development of communication technologies. Individual and societal multilingualism; preservation and revival of endangered languages.
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
EDUC 191X: Introduction to Survey Research (EDUC 291X)
Planning tasks, including problem formulation, study design, questionnaire and interview design, pretesting, sampling, interviewer training, and field management. Epistemological and ethical perspectives. Issues of design, refinement, and ethics in research that crosses boundaries of nationality, class, gender, language, and ethnicity.
EDUC 196X: The Design of Technologies for Casual Learning (EDUC 396X)
Studio-based, participatory, and user-centered development of casualnnlearning technologies is explored, using the Apple iPhone as annprototype platform. The term "casual" is borrowed from casual gamingnnto denote that the learning technologies are meant for learners to usennin "extreme informal" learning circumstances (while "on the go", "anynntime and any place"). The class builds on learning about andnnsynthesizing knowledge, theory and development activity in four areasnnincluding learning theories, mobile technologies, games andnnparticipatory design processes.
EDUC 203: The Anthropology of Education
Learning across situations, organizations, institutions, and cultures. How and when people learn and where, with whom and for what and how answers to these questions change across the lifespan. Schools in relation to other settings in which learning takes place for children, adolescents, and adults. Apprenticeship, mentorship, and learning through observation and imitation.
EDUC 205X: The Impact of Social and Behavioral Science Research on Educational Issues
Ways in which research intersects with educational policy and practice. Emphasis is on behavioral, social, and cognitive traditions. Topics include early childhood education, early reading, science education, bilingual education, school desegregation, class size reduction, classroom organization, violence and juvenile crime, and affirmative action in higher education. Policy debates and how research informs or fails to inform deliberations and decisions in these areas.
EDUC 218: Topics in Cognition and Learning: Induction, Proof, Discovery, and Statistics
This year, the topics course will consider how children, adults, and scientists induce pattern across multiple instances. The problem of induction has deep philosophical roots, because there is no guaranteed method of success. It also has implications for instruction; for example, what instances best help students discover important structure, and what psychological and pedagogical processes improve inductive learning? A unique feature of this course is that issues of human learning will be taught in concert with formal statistics, which scientists have developed to aid induction. The course will use an inductive (discovery) approach to learning statistical methods including analysis of variance, correlation, regression, and chi-square. In sum, the course will introduce the philosophy of inductive inference, its psychological process, the instructional applications of inductive learning, and students will learn statistics inductively. No prerequisites. Students who have taken the relevant statistics courses should also benefit from ¿re-learning¿ statistics inductively.
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EDUC 220Y: Introduction to the Economics of Education: Economics Section
For those taking 220A who have not had microeconomics before or who need a refresher. Corequisite: 220A.
EDUC 222: Resource Allocation in Education
Problems of optimization and design, and evaluation of decision experience. Marginal analysis, educational production functions, cost effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, constrained maximization, program evaluation. Introduction to linear models for large-scale data analysis. Implications to model assumptions.
EDUC 223: Good Districts and Good Schools: Research, Policy, and Practice
Recent studies of districts and schools that exceed expectations in producing desired results for students. Research methodologies, findings of studies, theories of change in reforming schools and districts and efforts to implement results. Components of good schools and districts. Required project studies a school or district to determine goodness. (SSPEP/APA, CTE)
EDUC 224: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
(Same as
STRAMGT 367). This course examines individuals and organizations that use entrepreneurial skills and approaches to develop innovative responses to social problems. Entrepreneurship has traditionally been seen as a way of creating wealth for the entrepreneur and for those who back her/his work. Social entrepreneurs employ "entrepreneurial skills," such as finding opportunities, inventing new approaches, securing and focusing resources and managing risk, in the service of creating a social value. As the intensity and complexity of social and environmental problems has grown in recent years social entrepreneurship, defined as innovative, social value creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government or business sectors, has become increasingly prominent. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is that the primary focus of social entrepreneurship is to achieve social impact above all else. We will study some of the most promising and the best-proven innovations for improving people's lives. We will also examine mature projects that are now tackling the issue of "scale", moving from local innovations to solutions that create deep systemic changes for larger numbers of economically disadvantaged individuals and communities throughout the world. This year we will focus on what are the constraints and opportunities for creating a social enterprise at scale. nn nnThe process of "scale" poses tremendous challenges. Even when organizations manage to overcome the many obstacles to growth, and achieve appreciable scale, this approach is seldom sufficient to achieve significant social impact on its own. This year our course will pay particular attention to network approaches which require the mobilization of a vast array of actors and resources, but have the potential to generate rapid and sustained social impact.
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