Introduction to Teaching and Learning

1 Unit · Undergraduate

This course explores the nature of learning and the implications for what it means to teach, with a particular focus on teaching and learning in US K-12 schools. To do so, we will explore and critique theories of learning and investigate how those theories have animated our own experiences as learners in schools. We will examine the various purposes of schooling and how these ideologies, coupled with theories of learning and societal forces, have worked to produce inequitable conditions and outcomes for students in US schools. We will then consider what it means to teach in ways that lead to learning and more equitable outcomes, drawing on cases that make the hidden work of teaching visible. Finally, we will apply what we?ve learned about learning, teaching, and schooling to analyze contemporary debates in education and how they are covered by the media.