TAKING EDUCATION OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
Education is often considered only to take place in formal schooling environments with professionally-trained teachers and students sitting in classrooms. However, research shows - and our intuitions suggest - that education occurs every day in a variety of ways, with a variety of people, and in a variety of spaces. For example, education - or more specifically, teaching and learning - happens in spaces such as museums and libraries but also, perhaps, at sports practice and around the family dinner table. Truly understanding what it means to teach and learn involves delving into and unpacking this variety. Further, if creating change in whether and how different people have opportunities to teach and learn in our society requires exposing and exploiting this variety.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare and contrast best practices of teaching and learning in formal school and non-school contexts Audience: Undergraduate 2. Expand definitions of teaching and learning and explore the affordances and constraints of those definitions Audience: Undergraduate 3. Synthesize across past and current experiences, as well as the research literature, to identify salient features of non-school contexts including locations, duration, purpose, roles, etc Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate how teaching and learning outside of schools disrupts and perpetuates structural inequities of formal schooling Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify potential career paths involving teaching and learning outside schools Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare and contrast best practices of teaching and learning in formal school and non-school contexts Audience: Undergraduate 2. Expand definitions of teaching and learning and explore the affordances and constraints of those definitions Audience: Undergraduate 3. Synthesize across past and current experiences, as well as the research literature, to identify salient features of non-school contexts including locations, duration, purpose, roles, etc Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate how teaching and learning outside of schools disrupts and perpetuates structural inequities of formal schooling Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify potential career paths involving teaching and learning outside schools Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027