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Dear EDFN 300 Students
(Spring 2009, Sections 005 and 006)

Please check this page regularly as well as our Blackboard documents. I have placed guidelines for your Pedagogic Creed assignment on the documents page.

Some of you may be interested in participating in the Museum's Greene Salon. Please let me know asap if you wish to tak part.

~~ck



 

Dear College of Education Faculty and Staff and Museum friends,

In conjunction with the New York City-based Maxine Greene Foundation, the Museum of Education will stage our Spring 2009 Maxine Greene Salon on February 18, Wednesday, from 4:30 to 6:00ish in Room 125, The Travelstead Room, at the Museum of Education. We will be discussing The Lazarus Project, a widely heralded novel by the Bosnian writer, Aleksandar Hemon. Maxine will welcome us via telephone and then we will screen a video of her introduction from the New York City Salon (held on January 25th).

A s Maxine has written, “in part a mystery, in part an account of a search in the past and present for an answer, it has to do with the relation between a novelist's art and 'reality', with the ambiguities and the dark spaces in history. Elaine Blair, writing in the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, tells of the journey of Brik through Eastern Europe to capture the sufferings and horrors marking so much of its history. ‘But something else is articulated here besides Brik's pain and rage: a skepticism that has been building throughout his Eastern travels about the extent to which any of us can feel genuine sorrow over historical catastrophes that are well known to us but remote from our own lives.’ What, finally, can fiction, can art in general do to overcome our numb sense of detachment from Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, not to mention the Holocaust? Questions like these are aroused by this book, questions that still need attention.”

Please know that you and any of your friends, students, and colleagues are invited to attend. The Greene Salon is free and open to anyone who has “read” the novel. The Museum volunteered to stage salons knowing that any real-time participation with Maxine Greene would be a thrill for us all. Also, in accord with Maxine’s life long efforts to build communities and public spaces, we recognized that an ongoing salon program would be most enjoyable and would come to represent the basic beliefs and intentions of the Museum of Education. Please RSVP by January 25 if you wish to attend [museumofeducation@sc.edu]; seating is limiting.


For more information, go to the Museum's salon page.

   
                           
   

Dear EDFN 300 Students
(Spring 2009, Sections 005 and 006)

I have been receiving a few queries about what books will be assigned in our Spring semester class. I write NOT asking that you read or engage in any preparation for our course. Just attend the first class session, and I will introduce the semester’s activities. However, if anyone would like to order their book in advance, I suspect you will be able to save a few dollars.

We will be using the fourth edition of Classic Edition Sources: Education: SBN: 0073379743
Title: Classic Edition Sources: Education (Classic Edition Sources)
Author: Craig Kridel; Fourth edition, 2008
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Please do not obtain the third edition; the entire text has been changed. While I have ordered the book for the USC Bookstore and the SC Bookstore, many on-line vendors are selling copies at $26-30.00 (including shipping). Campus Book Store via AbeBooks lists the text for $28.43. Please know that you need not own a copy of this book; I ask only that you read it. I will place a copy on reserve at Cooper Library, and each section will have its own copy to be past around. Once again, there are no course assignments; just attend the first class session in January.

I will mention that EDFN 300 is now conceived as a junior-senior level course. Perhaps a few academic advisors may have encouraged you to enroll during your sophomore or even first year. I would ask any first year students to reconsider taking the course at this time. I believe you may be placing your GPA in jeopardy since, according to my records, first years students have averaged a 2.02 gpa during the past few years (when juniors and seniors have been well above 3.40 gpa). I would strongly encourage any first year student to drop this course.

I look forward to meeting you in January. I hope you have an enjoyable and restful holiday break.

Most cordially,

Craig Kridel

 


  
 

EDFN 300; Schools in Communities

Course Description:   Schools in Communities  introduces students to three "arenas" of education–that of the teacher, student, and society–and, in so doing, addresses the dispositions necessary to become principled and thoughtful educators as defined by the College of Education’s Professional Educators as Leaders model. Through autobiographical and historical/sociological inquiry, EDFN 300 students complete studies in “foundations of education” by (a) recognizing their emerging educational beliefs, attitudes, and values (“self-knowledge”) and (b) learning basic, commonly-accepted terms, issues, and ideas from the field of education (“cultural issues”). Students come to understand the multicultural, social, and political influences on a professional educator’s work and reconfirm their commitment to "becoming a teacher." The course embraces the College of Education dispositions of “integrity, intellectual spirit, justice, stewardship” while also reflecting its own constructed values of curiosity, courage, and compassion.   

       
                           
       

 

  
                                   

 
               


 
 
       
     
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Craig Kridel
Department of Educational Studies
Wardlaw Hall; University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
office: 803.777-7257; fax: 803.777-7741
craig@sc.edu