The short description:

This course is designed to help prospective teachers examine their assumptions, educational beliefs, and pedagogical practices in the context of the wider social forces and educational inequalities that impinge on schooling in British Columbia, Canada and elsewhere. Discourse or social talk about public school, teachers' work, as well as, the place of particular groups of students ("ESL", working class, girls/young women, First Nations, and so forth) will be analyzed in terms of impact on implications pedagogical practice and mobilization of resources and support for schools. Discourse on public schooling involves many interested voices, whether they are outspoken, dissident, marginal, or silenced and unwelcome in the debate. The interests that construct education go beyond individual educators, students, academics and researchers (e.g. corporations, particular lobby groups, teacher unions, the state, etc.). Moreover, they are set in a broader context of social inequalities that impact on teaching and learning.

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