Ed4005 Teaching and learning sociological and cultural perspectives in the new societies

Course description:

This course encourages students to know and reflect around new postmodern societies development, problems and tendencies. Also it promotes students in building a new vision and holistic comprehension of education in the new societies, which let them the integration of new concepts and proposals as professional practitioners

Objectives:

• Develop the concept of education and its relationship to culture in post-modern societies.
• Know and reflect upon modernity crisis, post-modernity principles of change and their outcomes in education.
• Know the role of educational systems and institututions in the social and economic government development
• Know and reflect upon the impact of new societies in today's educational process.
• Know and reflect upon educational problems, challenges and tendencies of education in the Mexican and international contexts.

Content:

1. Post-modernity: interrelationships among society, culture and education concepts in the new societies.
2. Education and educational systems organization elements: structure, organization, planning, teaching and learning processes.
3. Professions' social perspective and the role of education in the social and economic models of contemporary societies.
4. Impact of new societies on: teaching & learning processes: social, cultural and technological changes.
5. Mexican education system problems.
6. International educational systems problems and globalization
7. Reflections upon educational challenges