Exploring Research in Classrooms.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: TEDU 617 . Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. The purpose of the course is to provide students with an overview of classroom-based research, particularly from the socio-cultural tradition. This course explores research on the classroom through recent and classic works of theory and empirical studies of teaching and learning. Throughout the course students will engage the tension between educational ends (educational theory, institutional goals and teachers’ goals) and students’ needs and desires.