SOC 221 - Schools and Society (= EDU 221)

Instructor
Gay

What really constitutes school success? Is a liberal education the best education? Do teachers treat children from different backgrounds unfairly? What aspects of society do schools reproduce? These are some of the questions that students will examine in this introductory course on how social theories have shaped educational policies and practice. We will read the primary works of major social educational theorists, such as Karl Marx, John Dewey, Paulo Freire, Pierre Bourdieu, and Annette Lareau, and Patricia Hill Collins. The course requires 15 hours of observation in a school.

Satisfies Communication Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Educational Studies minor requirement.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.