Added 1pm Social Foundations Course for Spring 2014
EPS 420-G Sociology of Education (crn# 59224)
SOC 420-G Sociology of Education (crn#59225)
Instructor: Dr. Bernice McNair Barnett
Day & Time: Tuesday, 1-2:50pm
Credit: 2 or 4 Hours
Location: Room 323 Education Bldg
EPS 420-G/SOC 420-G “Sociology of Education” is a social foundations course that provides a sociological examination of education and schooling in society. It introduces, synthesizes, and evaluates diverse and competing major sociological theories, scholarly research, and important issues in the sociology of education. Topics include but not limited to: the expansion of education nationally and globally; family background and school achievement; bilingual education; organization of schools; desegregation; educational reforms; diversity in education; teacher preparation and professionalization; college costs and student debt; student achievement; women in higher education; gender, race, class, language, citizenship, nationality, and immigrant status, and other stratifying social relations in education and schooling from pre-k, elementary, middle, and high schools to community colleges, private 4-year colleges, and research universities. In addition, reflecting one of the professor's areas of specialization in sociology as well as insights gained from extensive life history interviews with leaders and activists of the 1960s (including literacy pioneer and social justice activist-educator Mrs. Septima Poinsette Clark and other citizenship school and freedom school teachers), this course provides a brief introduction to the impact of social movements of the 1960s on education and schooling. We will consider how students, teachers, African Americans, Latino/a Americans, Asian Americans, Native American Indians, women, disabled, low income, language minority, and others mobilized for changes in education and society.
