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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CISE 3350 Working Within Schools


This course deals with schools as social institutions that teachers must learn to negotiate in order to be successful. The course is taken in conjunction with CISE 3520/Practicum in which teacher candidates work two days per week in a school and teacher candidates in this course use their practicum as social institutions. The goal of this course is for students to gain an understanding of teaching as a social activity conducted within political, social, and cultural systems and on terrain that is often contested by competing social groups. Students explore the legal, economic, and institutional constraints on schools, and the intellectual, cultural, and social possibilities of schools. Students examine schools as complex systems to which they must adapt but which they can also change in order to be effective teachers.
Credits: 2.0