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Loyola University Chicago School of Education ELPS 550 Seminar on Globalization and Education Fall 2010 Noah W. Sobe Assistant Professor Lewis Towers, Suite 1107 Phone: (312) 915-6954 email: [email protected] Office Hours: Mondays 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm; additional times available by appointment. Course Description This course will examine globalization in relation to schooling and educational issues broadly considered. The primary purpose of this seminar is to explore ways that "globalization" has been problematized and researched in educational literature. Toward this end we will read recent social science scholarship and debates on how globalization might be productively theorized and studied. Considering the theoretical lenses, disciplinary paradigms and research strategies that are being used to study globalization is important to graduate students who are designing research projects that will touch on the issues we will be exploring. Close attention to how globalization is studied is warranted by the increasingly common claim that with globalization the embeddedness of social relations in various communities becomes profoundly destabilized. This claim presents some significant challenges to existing social science methods of inquiry and units of analysis. One key objective of the course is to provide a historical perspective on the schooling options and experiences of diverse groups of people. In keeping with the School of Education's conceptual framework of seeking to foster "professionalism in the service of social justice", this course will bring a global comparative perspective to the ways that race, ethnicity and socio-economic status interact with educational opportunity and achievement. The assignments in the course are designed to enhance students' critical, analytic writing skills and prepare students for undertaking original research projects in comparative and international education. Reading List The following books are available at the Loyola University Bookstore (Water Tower). Kathryn Anderson-Levitt (Editor) Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthroplogy and World Culture Theory (New York, Palgrave, 2003) ISBN: 1403961638 Ino Rossi (Editor) Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches (Springer, 2008) ISBN: 0387335951 Felix Stadler, Manuel Castells (Key Thinkers) (Polity Press, 2006) ISBN: 0745632777 Frank Lechner and John Boli World Culture: Origins and Consequences (Blackwell, 2005) ISBN: 063122677X Additional required readings will be posted on Blackboard as PDF files. There are also several readings available through the Loyola library website.Page 2 Course Requirements Attendance is required; if you have to miss a class, you are required to write a reaction paper discussing one of the readings for that week – also please email me in advance, whenever possible, if you will be missing a class. The make-up assignment will afford you the chance to have some interaction with the professor regarding the topics and discussions covered in class. These 500-750 word papers should be submitted to the professor in person, as printed-out papers, within two weeks of the missed class. Please do NOT submit make-up papers via email or through Blackboard's Digital Dropbox. Failure to write make-up reaction papers for any class absences will result in your grade being lowered one letter grade. Missing three (3) or more classes over the course of the semester will significantly hinder your learning and – unless arrangements are made with the professor – will result in your grade being lowered. You must have working access to your Loyola email account in order to use Blackboard (http://blackboard.luc.edu) and access the library remotely (http://libraries.luc.edu). Either use your luc.edu address or set it to forward to another email account that you check regularly since the luc.edu email is the one I will use to communicate with you. This course also requires use of the LUC libraries' on-line resources as part of integrating technology into teaching and learning. This course is a graduate seminar and as such students are expected to come to class having carefully read the required readings, prepared to discuss them. Some form of notetaking as you read is recommended so that you can easily raise questions about the text, objections and the like during our class discussions. You should read intelligently and critically: hold authors to the claims that they make about what they intend to accomplish; hold them accountable for faulty logic and unexamined assumptions; consider alternate explanations and views to the ones presented. Since class discussions will frequently refer to the text of these books and articles, you are required to bring copies of the readings to class. You will be graded on your participation in class discussions. You are required to write three (3) reaction papers over the course of the semester. These are to be 2-3 page (500-750 word) papers emailed to me by midnight prior to the day they are due – write in advance of three of the following five classes: Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 25, Nov 1. These should not be summaries of the readings; rather, you should pick two or three themes from the readings and "respond" or "react" to them in some detail. [Questions you may want to think about: Was the author convincing? If not, why not? Were you struck by the way he/she formulated an argument? Were the arguments original? Surprising? Based on evidence? What kinds of questions are left unanswered?] This assignment is designed to strengthen your analytic writing abilities and facilitate our discussions. This course also has an ethnographies of globalization assignment that will require you to work with 4-5 fellow classmates. Your group will be assigned to read and then lead a class session on one of the ethnographies listed below. On the first day of class I will ask you to rank your interest in each of the following books and I will then form appropriate groups. You are required to purchase this book – each is easily available on amazon.com, orderable at the Borders on Michigan Avenue, and/or procurable at bookfinder.com. Your group should plan to meet


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