Teaching: Purpose and Pedagogy

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course is designed to explore teaching envisioned broadly. Educators work in a variety of contexts including schools, community organizations, government departments, and corporate settings. Here we will learn about the history and sociocultural contexts of teaching, explore philosophical underpinnings of various approaches to teaching, and engage with ethical considerations we might make as educators responding to particular populations of learners. To accomplish these goals this course is organized around three focal questions: 1) Who am I?, 2) Who do we teach?, and 3) What do we do as teachers? [3]