EDU 302 - Educational Advocacy

4 Hour(s)
This goal of this course is to develop informed and effective educational advocates. This course analyzes current educational policies, trends and issues from a) historical, philosophical, and social foundations perspectives and, b) school, district, national, and global contexts. The course examines school and education governance structures, and the impact of legal, political, and economic factors on school organization, operation, policy making and administration. Through a semester long individualized research project and course topics, students will explore ways to develop a sustaining professional identity that includes a constructivist perspective, critical consciousness, educational advocacy and professional integrity.

FA, SP
Prerequisite(s): EDU 202, EDU 203
Concurrent enrollment in EDU 311 and EDU 360 encouraged.