Course Description
School reforms and shifts in educational paradigms related to young adolescent development and the schooling of young adolescents.
Athena Title
School Reform and Young Adoles
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDMG 9150E
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Summarize the major school reforms in the education of young adolescents in approximately the last century. Review major theoretical paradigm shifts in educational theory about young adolescents. Analyze how changing social and economic structures of society prompted or inhibited school reforms for young adolescents. Propose topics for research project relating to school reform for middle grades.
Topical Outline
Youth and age-grading Theories about the education of young adolescents Social change and schools for young adolescents School reform and the middle grades
Syllabus
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