Course Descriptions
Spring 2008
U ED. 71100 - Literacy in AHSS, Tao
This seminar will survey the field of literacy research by exploring current issues in literacy acquisition and instruction, including related models and theories. In particular, we shall focus on literacy research development in the past thirty years. Participants will develop an in-depth understanding of the complex relationship between literacy growth and factors affecting the growth, developing an appreciation of the research methodologies used in exploring various literacy issues.
U ED. 72200 – Research Seminar in SMT, Tobin
The advanced research seminar will examine the history of research and theory used in research urban science mathematics and technology education, exploring the initial dominance of psychological and philosophical theories and the subsequent rise in sociocultural theories and associated methods. Participants in this course will become experts in their selected fields, building in-depth knowledge of the leading researchers, institutions, journals, and professional organizations in the fields in which they will undertake research. Each participant will select theories and methods germane to a selected research problem and will create designs, a research prospectus and a proposal to obtain approval to undertake research with human subjects.
U ED. 73100 – Critical Social Theory/Ed Policy Studies, Anyon
What is critical social theory? How do we theorize power, resistance, globalization, political economy, race, and gender? How can we study and utilize these in research? We will read Foucault, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Gramsci, Butler, Mahmood, Sassen, Harvey, and Critical Race Theory in order to parse their thoughts for use in our thinking and research.
U ED. 73200 - Research Seminar Ed Policy Studies, Anyon
A focus on research methodologies appropriate to Education Policy research. Course is designed for advanced students working toward second examination and dissertation proposal.
U ED. 75200 - Curriculum/Assessment K-16, Anderson
Over the past twenty-five years, educational policy has focused on assessment at the expense of curriculum and teaching at all levels of US education. The rationale cites increased accountability” for students, teachers and administrators. Testing, sometimes in radically simplified forms, now drives the curriculum in everything from early reading to teacher preparation. The seminar analyzes the shaping of current teaching and schooling by the accountability movement, explores the history of the relationship between assessment / evaluation and teaching / curriculum, and develops approaches to curriculum and assessment that meet the overall educational needs of students.
U ED. 75200 - Educating Educators, Michelli
This program seminar is an overview of policy, practice, and research regarding how educators are prepared in the United States with special focus on urban educators. Students will engage in discussion and research around critical questions central to the field. Class sessions will include interviews with leaders possibly including policy makers, researchers, publishers, administrators and faculty in teacher education as well as candidates in teacher education programs from a several settings.
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