Prerequisites: SRM 680. An introduction to the theory and methods of microethnographic discourse analysis approaches to the study of language and literacy events. Students will be encouraged to pursue their individual research interests in work for the course.
Provides teachers with an analytic framework for understanding different types of teacher research as well as strategies and techniques for conducting research in K-12 schools.
Prerequisites: EDF 619 and EDLD 606. This course is designed to assist students in the completion of their internship for the Cultural Studies and Equity Graduate Certificate. The course will guide students in applying theoretical and empirical understandings of cultural diversity and equity in their selected field placement.
Assists student in recognizing need for creating processes that enable children, educators and others to support and design a culturally and socially diverse curriculum.
Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.
Exploration and analysis of possible range of assumptions about nature of human activity (thinking, behaving, feeling) and implications of those assumptions relative to educational enterprise.
Examines nature and scope of curriculum planning, instructional design, decision-making, and implementation. Delivery and instruction of a curriculum, the process for changing curriculum are investigated.
Examine current issues in instructional and assessment practices, from social and historical and political perspectives; focus on the research literature on instruction and assessment practices.
Examines roots of educational research, its evolution in context of educational reform. Conceptual base in the interpretation, application, and dissemination of current and emerging literature.
Examine leading contemporary and classical philosophical systems and how they culminate in practical educational goals, systems of justification and practices. Includes the study of educational aims and values.