EDUCATION 492 (1-3 Semester Hours)
DIRECTED INDEPENDENT STUDY IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
Course Description:
Involves investigation of specified topic in comparative education under faculty
supervision. Areas of focus may include teaching strategies, theoretical
approaches, assessment, evaluation models and utilization of technology. This
course has been designed for education students participating in a study abroad
experience.
Suggested Readings:
Noah, Harold J. (1985). Comparative Education. In T. Husén & T. Neville
Postlethwaite (eds), The International Encyclopedia of Education. Research and
Studies. New York: Pergamon, pp. 869 – 872.
White, Bob W. (1996). Talk about School: education and the colonial project in
French and British Africa (1860 – 1960). Comparative Education, 32/1, 9 – 25.
Gaines, Kevin (1993). “Black Americans’ Racial Uplift Ideology as “Civilizing
Mission.”” In Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease (eds.), Cultures of United States
Imperialism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Baker, David & Gerald K. LeTendre (2005). National Differences, Global
Similarities. Stanford: Stanford University Press (chapters 1, 4, 11).
Kamens, David H., Benavot, Aaron (2006). World Models of Secondary
Education, 1960-2000. In A. Benavot and C. Braslavsky, eds., School Knowledge
in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Hong Kong: Comparative Education
Research Centre and the University of Hong Kong, pp. 135-154.
Other texts as required.
Course Objectives:
Students may wish to independently investigate and research topics. These
could be topics not normally offered in the curriculum or topics in which students
wish to go beyond the scope or limitations of a course. The independent study
should not duplicate too closely existing courses and should be comparable in
breadth, depth, and intellectual content to similar courses in its discipline.
Independent studies are designed to be campus based and include frequent
consultation with the Faculty Director.
The primary mission of the Donald R. Watson School of Education at the
University of North Carolina at Wilmington is to develop highly competent
professionals to serve in teaching and other educational leadership roles in
southeastern North Carolina, the state, and nation. The Watson School is
committed to achieving excellence in teacher and administrator preparation in all
of its programs.
Course Requirements:
1. The student will submit evidence that the directed independent study
enhances the student's understanding of the educational issues in one or
more countries by presenting a seminar to the class and a written paper
the length to be determined by the instructor.
2. The student and the instructor will agree in writing before registering for
the directed independent study the scope and sequence of the work for
this class.
Attendance:
Meetings to be determined by instructor and student.
Accommodations:
If you are a person with a disability and anticipate needing accommodations of
any type in order to participate in this class, you must notify Disability Services
(Westside Hall, 962-7555), provide the necessary documentation of the disability
and arrange for the appropriate authorized accommodations. Once these
accommodations are approved, please identify yourself to me in order that we
can implement these accommodations.
Grading
Grades may range from A to F as shown in the UNCW catalog.
Modeled after Gita Steiner-Khams