Investigating Critical & Contemporary Issues in Education

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This course engages students in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. Students will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational setting in Georgia and the United States. Students will actively examine the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside the school. Against this backdrop, students will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy. This includes the use of current technologies which are directly related to effective teaching and 15 hours of observation in appropriate elementary/early childhood, middle grades, secondary, or P-12 environments.