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Urban Education
U ED 71100 Area
Seminar in AHSS: Historical Methods in Educational Research History is produced rather than reconstituted by historians who themselves hold competing and often conflicting notions of how best to engage in historical study. This course explores the theoretical underpinnings that frame historical research and the methodologies commonly used to conduct it. Students will be introduced to historiography through the major schools of the twentieth century, including the positivist tradition, Marxism, the Annales school, gender studies, microhistory and the linguistic turn. The main emphasis of the course will be to engage students in the issues that arise when practicing history. Students will develop bibliographies and examine archival materials in order to advance their own research agenda while simultaneously querying numerous aspects of historical study: the possibilities and limits of historical evidence, the usefulness and limitations of periodization, and the power and pitfalls of categories of analysis, the narrative form, and causal explanations.
U ED 72100 Area Seminar in SMT:
Qualitative Methods for Research in Urban SMT The seminar will examine qualitative research from cultural-historical perspectives, with a focus on doing research in large cities, such as New York. An overarching concern will be to design and enact research that is ethically sound in its treatment of participants and is authentic in that it benefits all participants in a study, not just the researchers. We will explore methodologies that are appropriate for participant-observer studies, including ethnography and design experiments. The approaches to research will be appropriate for questions that arise as teachers do research in classrooms, administrators undertake research in their own schools or school districts, and policy makers compare what is happening in large urban settings across the nation. We will use digital video and audiotape as resources for research and learn to use a range of computer software in analysis, interpretation and dissemination. A range of digital tools will be used in the course. The course will be a hands-on experience and all participants will need to have access to computers. The assessment for the course will be based on analyses of field notes and video vignettes, necessitating the use of digital tools. A research plan also will be required, written to conform to the requirements for our Urban Education program or a selected agency such as the Spencer Foundation (to fund doctoral research). U
ED. 73100 Area Seminar in Policy: Social Science Theory and Urban
Research What do Foucault, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Soja, Hardt and Negri, David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, Richard Delgado, and Dorothy E. Smith have to say about ways of doing research in urban neighborhoods and institutions such as schools? The course will investigate answers to this question. U ED 71200
Research Seminar in AHSS Focus on research methodologies appropriate to AHSS research. Course is designed for advanced students working toward second examination and dissertation proposal. U ED 73200
Research Seminar in Policy 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
Program Seminar: Educating Educators 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. |