When you have completed Education 302, you should be able to accomplish the following major course objectives:

  1. explain the origins of neo-conservative ideologies, and discuss their effects on the education systems of Alberta and Ontario.
  2. discuss the role that teachers are expected to perform as agents of social change, and the barriers—personal, cultural and structural—that they face in filling that role.
  3. explain the various meanings attached to the concept of “equality” within education, and discuss the role of education in maintaining inequality, and in undermining it.
  4. discuss the concepts of “multiculturalism” and “diversity,” and explain their importance in, and the challenges they pose for, education.