Clabaugh & Rozycki Materials for the Social Foundations of Education NewFoundations Press 2007 on CD containing pdf's of four texts:

1. School and Society: a systemic view
2. Governance, Law, Finance & Teaching
3. A Brief History of Education
4. Analyzing Controversy, Second Edition 2007 ;
with
5. Research WWW Portals for Social Foundations Topics,
plus Powerpoint presentations and study guides for use in class.

Also, Workbook: Foundations of Education will be provided in hard copy.


Course Objectives: This course

1. teaches analytic techniques of broad applicability to decision-making in various contexts.

2. helps students evaluate competing accounts of school and social realities.

3. incorporates conflict and negotiation theory as well as organization and institutionalization theory to expand insight into the realities of schooling.

4. provides specific procedures for the analysis of educational policy statements

5. furnishes techniques for evaluating the feasibility of educational programs and instructional interventions

6. maintains a continuing in-depth focus on the problems of schooling in a pluralistic society

7. specifically considers the impact of "multi-culturalism" on schooling

8. provides facts about a wide range of topics such as school law, school finance, and school organization and administration

9. places education and schooling in historic context.

This course adheres to La Salle's "Standards for Graduate Course Work." All La Salle graduate students are expected to:

1. Think critically an independently and master the skills presently demanded in their field of study.

2. Understand both current and traditional approaches to their discipline.

3. Become thoroughly familiar with the current literature of their discipline by regular use of the standard references, current journals and professional publications.

4. Contribute substantially to coursess through research projects, seminar papers, case studies and supervised field experiences.

5. Apply facts and ideas learned in courses to original or application-oriented projects and papers.

6. Adhere in their written work to high standards of grammar, punctuation, organization and style. Where appropriate, the official style manual adopted by the discipline should be followed.

Course Requirements:

1. Regular attendance, thorough preparation, and informed participation.

2. Examinations or short analytic student presentations (to be announced)

3. Application and synthesis critique: each student must demonstrate the ability to apply and synthesize the distinctions and analytic techniques taught in the course through the assignments to be announced.