Session Number |
Topics and Lectures |
Class Activities |
Reading Assignments
(be ready to discuss) |
Due Dates (in-class) |
1 |
- Introduction |
- Introductions, Bio Sheets
- Set up E-Mail listserve |
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2 |
– Origins of Schooling in the U.S. – The Social Organization – Curriculum and the |
– lecture - Key Terms & Discussion Exercises #s 1 - 68
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– deMarrais and LeCompte (Chapters 2 & 6) |
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3 |
– Youth Culture and the Student Peer Group – The Labor Force in Education |
- Key Terms & Discussion Exercises #s 69 - 125 – Share Responses to Written Responses - EPGs meet |
– deMarrais and LeCompte (Chapters 3 & 4) – Fine (Chapter 1 & 2) |
– Response Paper #1 Due |
4 |
– Sex vs. Gender – Gender Equity in Education |
– lecture – Key Terms & Discussion Exercises #s 126 - 154 – small group clarification - EPGs meet |
– deMarrais and LeCompte (Chapters 8) – Fine (Chapters 3, 4, & 5) |
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5 |
– Understanding Race – Ethnic Minorities: Equality |
– lecture – Key Terms & Discussion Exercises #s 155 - 192 – small group clarification - EPGs meet |
– deMarrais and LeCompte – Fine (Chapters 6, 7, 8, & 9) |
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6 |
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Midterm Examination |
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7 |
– Social Transmission – Social Class and its |
– lecture - Key Terms and Discussion Exercises #s 193 - 252
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– deMarrais and LeCompte (Chapters 1 & 5) |
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8 |
- Interpretive Theories
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- lecture - Share Responses to - EPGs meet |
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– Response Paper #2
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9 |
– Alternative Curricula and Transformative Pedagogies |
– Theater of the Oppressed – Student Evaluations (SETE) – EPGs meet |
– deMarrais and LeCompte (revisit Chapter 6)
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- Course Evaluation Due |
10 |
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- Final Educational Proposal Group Presentations “Town Meetings” |
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– Group Notebook Due
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Finals |
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- Final Educational Proposal Group Presentations “Town Meetings”
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– Group Member Evaluation Due |