Concentration in Educational Foundations with a Socio-Culture Studies Focus
This program is designed to explore the socio-cultural, political, and philosophical
context of educational theory and practice. This concentration is open to current and aspiring educational professionals, including those who work in a traditional school setting, higher education, or community programs as well as students seeking to apply to a doctoral program in education.
Why educational foundations at Western Michigan University?
Each student is encouraged to meet with a faculty advisor to design a program to study specific educational problems. Because educational issues tend to be complex, interdisciplinary inquiry is often a part of this concentration. The size of this program is controlled, providing students with a personally and professionally meaningful experience.
Program mission
- Develop skills necessary for ongoing critical inquiry concerning ways that educational aims and practices reflect and emerge from taken-for-granted cultural assumptions as well as formal institutional and political policies.
- Develop an understanding of the ways professional aims and practices are embedded in institutions and reflect their socio-historical contexts and cultural assumptions;
- Increase awareness of historically pertinent and current issues related to schooling;
- Develop an understanding of moral and political assumptions that affect schooling, and how these shape political relationships, particularly with regard to social justice and environmental sustainability;
- Expand and refine academic discipline-based skills.
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