Students will be able to:
• Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the work of prominent 
theorists in the foundations of education, educational 
philosophy, and educational theory
• Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the work of prominent 
theorists in English Education, teacher education, and 
curriculum studies
• Discuss the implications of theoretical and philosophical 
traditions on teacher orientations to schooling, knowledge, 
curriculum, and historical and ongoing movements in 
educational policy and practice, with an emphasis on English 
Education
• Establish, through independent research and reading, and 
then demonstrate, through discussions and written products, 
specialized expertise in a particular philosophical or 
theoretical tradition related to English Education
• Apply multiple theoretical and philosophical traditions to 
engage in argumentation and analysis around the production of 
teachers in the cultural, institutional, and popular milieus

1. History of major philosophical movements (e.g., Common 
Schooling, Classicalism, etc.) as these have influenced 
American education and therefore influenced English Education
2. Outline of major developments in educational theory and 
philosophy through authors within and beyond English 
Education
3. Teaching as philosophical practice; obstacles to 
consideration of teaching as philosophical practice
4. The role of English Education as a home for the production 
of new educational theory led by practicing teachers