Provides an overview of the history and current issues in the field for K-12 education including the impact of philosophy on practice. Meets TSPC Civil Rights testing requirements for ORELA.
Course Outcomes
Analyze current issues in education through historical, sociological, political and philosophical lenses and apply analysis to educational systems as levers of social justice
Develop and articulate an initial personal philosophy of education through examination of different schools of thought.
Identify the roles, professional responsibilities and ethical expectations of teachers in today’s schools, and link this to individual identity and career goals.
Explain how difference is socially constructed (in Education)
Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived difference, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, results in discrimination.
Analyze ways in which the interactions of social categories such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability and age are related to difference, power and discrimination in the United States.
