EDUC 260 - “Truthiness” in Education

Spring (3) (CSI)

When it comes to teaching and learning, we are all “insiders”-we have all seen and done this thing called education for many years. During this time, we have developed our own thoughts about how best to teach and learn. But the larger question we tackle in this class is this: Is what you know TRUE? How can you be sure? Because education is such a hot topic, we all have our opinions. This class provides students with the space to interrogate their long-held assumptions by rigorously examining the nature of human knowledge, and to critically trace the underlying epistemological assumptions driving discussion and policy-making in education today. This examination is critical because our assumptions regarding what we know and how we justify what we know drives the questions we ask, the methods we employ to answer those questions, the results we establish, and ultimately the policies we establish.