| Course ID: | ETAP 2200E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Education Around the World |
Course
Description: | Explores historical and contemporary purposes, practices, and political movements in education and their global influences. Attends to material, cultural, and social conditions and educational policies, past and present. Focuses on the intersections and interrelationships of contexts to the practice of education in diverse settings around the world. |
| Oasis Title: | Education Around the World |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in ETAP 2200 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be offered 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | In Education Around the World, students will learn and be able to:
1. Examine the work of education as a reflection of a society’s sociocultural norms and political economy.
2. Develop perspectives on the interrelationships between local, national, and international policies and systems that guide education and their relationship to access and opportunity historically and contemporarily.
3. Articulate the complexity of human behavior as functions of both commonalities and diversity within and across cultural, social, and national group boundaries and the role of education in shaping that behavior.
4. Analyze major issues facing societies across the world as they seek to universalize access to quality education for all.
5. Investigate how ideas and practices in education cross national boundaries and the role that various national and international organizations play in shaping education around the world.
6. Identify strengths and limitations of international, global, and comparative research and practice in education. |
| Topical Outline: | Education Around the World is designed to provide opportunities for students to develop a broad and conceptually rich understanding of historical and current issues in education across the globe. While there may be variations in pedagogical approaches as different faculty teach the course, the following is a general topical outline:
1. Overview and Definitions of Global, International, and Comparative Education.
2. History, Perspectives, and Contemporary Issues in Education Around the World.
3. The Purposes and Place of Schooling in Various Societies.
4. Childhood and Adolescence in Schools Across Cultures.
5. Tensions and Challenges in Education and “Globalization.”
6. Living and Learning in a Multilingual World.
7. Global Educational Reforms, Policies, and Social Change.
8. Examinations and Comparisons of International Educational Achievement.
9. Global Trends in Education and Pedagogical Responses.
10. Movements, Migrations, and the Changing Spaces of Education.
11. Maintaining Indigenous Identity in a Globalizing World.
12. Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Educational Opportunity Across the Globe. |