EDU 5383 Teaching the Politics of Choice to Adolescent Diverse Learners
(formerly EDU 595)
This course will provide the teacher candidate with an introduction to political and economic policymaking and its importance to our society. The official and unofficial inputs in policymaking, with an emphasis on the role of citizens in the process, will be studied. The development of U.S. political, social and economic policies and their impact will be explored and the major challenges facing contemporary U.S. society will be analyzed. The New York State Social Studies Frameworks for government and economics will be the foundation of this course. Teacher candidates will select an appropriate public policy project, which will include an analysis of citizen decision making through the use of a primary source analysis of the scholarly literature and be required to apply appropriate instructional strategies to teach their researched content.
Distribution
Education