S ED 690CI: The Multiple Roles of the Secondary Educator
Dr. Tae Chang: Professor in Secondary Education
Office Hours: TBA
Contact Information: 818.677.6491, 818.677.2580, or taechang@csun.edu
College of Education Conceptual Framework
The faculty of the Michael D. Eisner College of Education, regionally focused and nationally recognized, is committed to Excellence through Innovation. We believe excellence includes the acquisition of professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions and is demonstrated by the growth and renewal of ethical and caring professionals—faculty, staff, candidates—and those they serve. Innovation occurs through collaborative partnerships among communities of diverse learners who engage in creative and reflective thinking. To this end we continually strive to achieve the following competencies and values that form the foundation of the Conceptual Framework.
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Course Description
This course fosters critical inquiry into historical and current educational issues that affect and shape the roles of the secondary school educator. Through reading, discussion and debate, reflection, and writing, students develop a thorough and nuanced understanding of these issues and their implications for their own communities, schools, and classrooms. Candidates examine research on social reproduction, special education constructs, school culture, action research, outreach, classroom power, and discourse, and consider ways to apply this learning to their own communities, schools, and classrooms. A required course for M.A. degree candidates in Secondary Curriculum and Instruction. Enrollment restricted to students in the Master of Arts in Secondary Curriculum and Instruction program or with department permission.
This course addresses four of the five program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs). Students are expected to develop as professional educators who demonstrate…
This course focuses most strongly on SLOs #2 and 4.