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Offered in Fall 2011

EPE 525-001 / EPE 773-004  Seminar In Educational Policy Studies:  John Dewey and Progressive Education

Thursdays from 12:30 to 3:00 PM with Dr. Richard Angelo, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

Dewey was one of the towering intellectual figures of the 20th century. His name has been and continues to be synonymous with Progressive Education (capital P, capital E), but there's precious little agreement about what Progressive Education is or was, or what Dewey's contribution amounted to.   The aim of the seminar is to sample the critical give-and-take as it has developed since the 1950's.  At the same time, we'll have an opportunity to appraise contemporary initiatives--e.g., charter schools, NCLB, game-based learning, distance learning--asking which, if any, can legitimately lay claim to the progressive inheritance. In addition to the assigned reading and class discussions, students will write a paper (20-25 pages in length) on any aspect of progressive education--or Progressive Education--they chose.  There will be no final exam.

EPE 798-401  Seminar in Higher Education:  Sociology of Higher Education

Thursdays from 7-9:30 PM with Dr. Eric Reed, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

In EPE 798 we will survey many of the ways in which Sociologists study and discuss Higher Education. Our survey includes (but is not limited to): the study of Higher Education as part of a system of inequality; Higher Education as a stratification mechanism; Higher Education as an organization or institution; Higher Education as a workplace; and Higher Education as a change agent. We will conduct this survey by evaluating and discussing a theoretically and methodologically diverse sample of sociological works.