EDAD70033

Prerequisite: Admission to a graduate program within the College of Education or admission to a graduate program outside of the College of Education and permission of the instructor. This course emphasizes enduring educational problems and fundamental philosophical issues, concepts that feature centrally in educational discourse, ethical standards and dilemmas, and conceptual analysis as a means for clarifying decisions regarding educational policy and practice. The course also attends to the intersection of ethical decision-making in educational contexts and various conceptions and applications of equity (e.g., equity initiatives, but also equity as it is centered or decentered within decision-making around a range of school district functions, from resource allocation to testing/student placement, to a range of student and school outcomes, to human resource functions).