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Faculty
of Education and BCICS Team Up to Provide Course
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Powerful
inter-related forces of globalisation, expanding use of information
and communications technology, and the explosion of new knowledge
and learning, particularly in the sciences and technologies, are
challenging the quality of life throughout the world.
This course will focus on the contribution of both formal education
and non-formal learning of adults to the development of democratic
organisations in educational, social and economic sectors from the
early democracy of Athens to today's democratic practice. The historic
Judeo-Christian and humanist roots of democratic thought and action
will be explored, as will the contribution of the adult education
movement to allied educational, economic and social movements for
the last 200 years. In this two-part course, outstanding books and
articles will be used as well as particularly useful Web sites that
present a spectrum of views. Access to the Web is necessary for
all students. Videocassette and guest presentations will be used
selectively.
Part I will review the history, philosophy, social psychology, legal
basis and political economy of democratic organisations. It will
focus on how learning in all its forms contributes to the creation
of economic and social democracy. Selected case studies of the co-operative,
credit union, and associated adult education and community development
movements will illustrate historic attempts to develop democratic
organisations.
Part II will use the lens of lifelong learning, as defined by UNESCO
and OECD reports and research, to view current issues, trends and
case studies regarding democratic organisations and social movements
in their local as well as global context. Special focus will be
on issues that the learning leaders of democratic organisations
will face in the 21st Century including:
- the influence of the mass media;
- prospects for industrial democracy;
- new concepts of political economy built around social
capital theory;
- emerging democratic learning villages and regions;
- communitarian thought and action including community
service-learning, and new forms of social and economic cooperatives;
- the role of democratic organisations in contributing
to world peace.
The course - ED-D 591 YO1- will run September 2001 to April 2002,
is being offered through the good offices of Dr. Carol E. Harris,
with the assistance of BCICS.
- contributed by Ron Faris, Ph.D |
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Spring 2001: V1 - I1
Summer 2001: V1 - I2
Fall 2001: V1 - I3
Fall 2002: V2 - I1
Spring 2003: V3 - I1
Fall 2004: V4 - I1
Spring 2005: V5 - I1
Fall 2005: V5 - I2
Spring 2006: V6 - I1
Fall 2006: V6 - I2
Fall 2007: V7 - I1
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