Rethinking Education

Catalog description

Offered Spring Semester Only As one of the capstone courses in the teacher education program, this course is part of the process of developing a teacher who is a reflective practitioner in an urban environment. The course focuses on the prospective teacher's ability to understand current issues and controversies in American education within a framework of the fundamental sociological, historical, and philosophical concepts as applied to educational theory and practice. It develops the ability of the prospective teacher to be a reflective practitioner by addressing the acquisition of knowledge, reframing of knowledge and the utilization of knowledge about the teaching/learning process from a variety of different perspectives in a variety of classroom settings. Assignments, class discussions, activities and readings are designed to help prospective teachers to be reflective teachers in urban settings.