Ideas and Inquiry in Education

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This course in the College of Education Honors Program is designed to induct students into the culture and outlook of education research. Key content deals with skepticism and doubt, the relationship of ideas to empirically grounded constructs, the relevance of theory and critique, and some issues in the practice of systematic empirical inquiry. The course includes readings, discussions, films, relevant writing exercises and an early opportunity to engage in actual research.