EDU-545 Contemporary Issues in Education

This course provides an opportunity for prospective candidates to investigate the influence that contemporary social issues exert on systems of formal education. In particular, prospective candidates will examine change processes as they occur in education and acquire the basic skills needed to serve as world changers in the lives of individual students, the education profession, and society at large. They will examine the ways in which current issues and agendas for change require a stable, defensible set of core values. Based on these investigations, prospective candidates will initiate work, which will enable the prospective candidates to begin planning and preparing a personal/professional mission statement and the Applied Masters Portfolio.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

EDU

Notes

3