printer friendly pageEDUC 282X: The Politics of Knowledge in the Twentieth Century United States
This course examines the relationship between social scientific knowledge and power in the modern United States. Topics include the emergence of social scientific disciplines, debates over objectivity, and professionalization. The course examines both how universities, philanthropic foundations, and the federal government have shaped knowledge production and how social science has influenced law, social and educational policy, and popular social thought.
EDUC 287X: Graduate Research Workshop on Psychological Interventions (PSYCH 274)
Psychological research has the potential to create novel interventions that promote the public good. This workshop will expose students to psychologically 'wise' intervention research and to support their efforts to conduct such interventions, especially in the context of education, broadly conceived, as well as other areas. The first part of the class will address classic interventions and important topics in intervention research, including effective delivery mechanisms, sensitive behavioral outcomes, the role of theory and psychological process, and considerations of the role of time and of mechanisms that can sustain treatment effects over time. In the second part of the class, students will present and receive feedback on their own ongoing and/or future intervention research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Psychology or Education, or consent of instructor.
EDUC 290: Instructional Leadership: Building Capacity for Excellent Teaching
This course focuses on the role of leaders in designing, supporting and sustaining excellent teaching. How do leaders create the organizational conditions to focus attention on the technical core of instruction, curriculum and assessment. Course goals: 1) explore a variety of educational leadership approaches, 2) investigate the theory of action underlying these approaches to leadership and consider the implications for instructional practice and 3) develop understanding of the relationship between the leadership approach and the learning environment.
Instructors:
Van Lare, M. (PI)
EDUC 291X: Introduction to Survey Research (EDUC 191X)
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 293X: Church, State, & Schools: Issues in Education & Religion (RELIGST 293X)
This course will examine interactions between religion and education, focusing on both formal and experiential sites in which people and communities explore, articulate, encounter, and perform religious ideologies and identities. The class will focus on different religious traditions and their encounters the institutions and structures of education in American culture, both in the United States and as it manifests in American culture transnationally.
EDUC 294X: History of the Learned Book
The course takes full advantage of the university library's Special Collections to examine the key historic works contributing to the advancement of learning and the organization of knowledge. Beginning with medieval manuscripts and progressing through all areas of human inquiry during the age of print, the course explores the economic and educational history of learned publishing in the West, while examining what these historic artifacts reveal about developments in the structure and authority, production and circulation, technology and aesthetics, of learning and knowledge.
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 30 units total)
EDUC 295: Learning and Cognition in Activity (PSYCH 261A)
Methods and results of research on learning, understanding, reasoning, problem solving, and remembering, as aspects of participation in social organized activity. Principles of coordination that support cognitive achievements and learning in activity settings in work and school environments.
EDUC 296X: School Leadership
Can one person really make a difference for all the students in a school? Accurate or not, that's the expectation faced by school principals. This course will give students practice in translating school improvement ideas into practice and also help them develop a personal vision for school improvement. For students in POLS or MA/MBA program in School of Education.
EDUC 298: Learning in a Networked World: Learning Analytics in Technology-Enhanced Education (CS 377L)
Foundations, theories and empirical studies for interdisciplinary advances in how we conceive of the potentials and challenges associated with lifelong, lifewide and life-deep learning in a networked world given the growth of always-on cyberinfrastructure for supporting information and social networks across space and time with personal computers, netbooks, and mobiles.
EDUC 302X: Incentives In Education
Seminar. Theoretical and empirical literatures from psychology and economics that focus on group and individual incentives and their potential effects. Emphasis is on seminal experiments in psychology and the recent wave of economic field experiments that test the how individual incentives affect educational outcomes and intrinsic motivation.
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