EDU799: The Future of K-12 Education and Democracy

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
20

Overview

This course analyzes and evaluates the purposes of education in a democracy. The goal of this course is to help candidates find ways to improve K-12 education that strengthen democratic ideals.

The course project, Argument Paper: Solving an Educational Problem, requires candidates to choose an important educational problem to solve.  Candidates analyze and evaluate the purposes of education in a democracy, how the problem has impacted teaching over the last 50–100 years and currently, potential solutions and their impact of those solutions on a democracy.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Analyze and evaluate the purposes of education in a democracy.
  • Analyze and evaluate the history of a specific education problem.
  • Analyze and evaluate potential solutions to the specific education problem.
  • Analyze and evaluate the ways in which the potential solutions impact democracy.
  • Write a synthetic plan to solve an important education problem.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Prerequisites

EDU798 is a prerequisite for this course.

Required Texts
EDU799 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore