History and Education | Education Policy & Social Analysis

Courses

• EDP 5063 - US Education Policy in Historical Perspective

  This course takes a historically-informed approach to examining educational policy in the U.S. and will mix some limited presentations with seminar-style discussions. The course invites your sustained exploration of current educational policy through various historical perspectives. The course sessions break out thematically into three parts. First, we’ll look to frame ed policy in a wider educational landscape, via a comprehensive view of education, exploring what it means, what it includes, and the purposes it serves. We’ll then shift to some underlying dilemmas embedded in our history, primarily relating to civil religion, markets, law, place, ideology, and community. Finally, we’ll focus in on a handful of topic areas that reflect a messy mix of those dilemmas – homeschooling, school finance, community schooling, and social media. Your own experiences, expertise, and inquiries will add immeasurably to the content of the course, and your active participation will be invited. In all of this, there will be some special attention to Chicago as a context for our explorations. This should allow us to attend to the reality – and challenge -- of how distinct policy topics or dilemmas play out in intertwined ways on the ground across time.
• EDP 7501 - Dissertation Seminar

  Faculty. Permission by instructor required. Required of doctoral students in the semester following successful completion of certification examinations.
• EDPH 4060 - History of Education in NYC

  An examination of the city’s educational institutions from the perspective of the different school populations who attended them over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• EDPH 4070 - History of Education in the US

  Considers the development of American education in the context of American social and intellectual history.
• EDPH 4076 - History of Urban Education

  Understanding the development of schooling in US cities, with an emphasis on social, economic, and spatial changes in the metropolitan environment and their interactions with schools.
• EDPH 4901 - Research and Independent Study: History and Education

  Permission of instructor required.
• EDPH 5070 - History and Theory of Higher Education

  What is the purpose of higher education, and how has its purpose changed over time? In this course, we will investigate this fundamental question by contextualizing how religious, cultural, political, and international dynamics have contoured American higher education since the origins of the first colonial colleges to its present-day policies and issues.
• EDPH 5076 - History of African-American Education

  This course introduces students to African American education history in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth century. The students and professor will explore African American education before and after emancipation, the growth of segregated education institutions following Reconstruction, and African Americans’ efforts to desegregate schools during the twentieth century. Education development for descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States began in the slave quarter community. It was carried on informally despite efforts to contain their ability to gain an education. Our study of this history starts near the end of legalized slavery in the United States and seeks answers to the following questions. · What type of education did enslaved persons receive before emancipation? · How did education for African Americans develop and change over time? · What forces shaped the curricula of schools educating African American Students? · How did racial ideology affect the education provided to African Americans? · Was desegregation a good thing? · Has desegregation or efforts towards achieving education equity been achieved? Assignments allow students to connect this historical knowledge to the work they will engage in as they pursue their professional careers. It is also intended to broaden students’ understanding of what James Anderson, in The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860 -1935, calls “schooling for both democratic citizenship and schooling for second-class citizenship” and notes that both types of schooling “have been basic traditions in American Education.” (Anderson, 1)
• EDPH 5190 - Old and New Histories of Higher Education Institutions

  This research seminar, open to students from any program, supports research on the history of Teachers College as an academic institution. The last history of TC was published in 1954. New histories are vitally needed now. Fresh evidence, more recently published scholarship, and alternative perspectives make this endeavor an excellent opportunity for students to engage in historical research.
• EDPH 5195 - Experience, Education and Histories

  This seminar takes a historical perspective to explore learning through experience changed with the rise of mass schooling, increasing urbanization and industrialization, and the revolution in technology and communications. Special attention will be given to initiatives aiming to promote learning through experience amidst the ever-expanding built world and the standardization and regimentation of formal education. The seminar examines the history of efforts to foster learning settings that integrate direct experience, spontaneity, creativity, adventure and play more fully into the education of children and young adults.
• EDPH 5670 - Colloquium in History & Educ

  Discussion of research and teaching topics in history and education. Permission of instructor required.
• EDPH 6041 - History & Education Historical Method

  Methods, principles, and problems of historical research and interpretation. Designed for students throughout the College undertaking systematic inquiries on historical topics.
• EDPH 6901 - Rsch Indp Study:History & Educ

  Permission of instructor required.
• EDPH 8901 - Diss Advsmnt:History & Educatn

  Faculty. Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. For requirements, see section in catalog on Continuous Registration for Ed.D./Ph.D. degrees.