Intro to Ed in a Changing Worl

Catalog description

An introduction to education, this course reviews the historical, sociological, philosophical and psychological perspectives, which form the context of the American educational system. Designed to encourage prospective teachers to reflect on their decision to enter the teaching profession, particularly at the K-12 level, this course will focus on analyzing the multicultural dynamics in the historical and social structure of school and society, while providing opportunities to analyze a variety of teaching perspectives, and to gain and develop the cultural knowledge of self and others necessary to teach in a multicultural society. As such, it includes an observation or service-learning component that requires 45 hours of supervised participation at a school site. There may be a fee associated with TB test and LifeScan as required by a school site.