CI8201

This course provides students with the opportunity to 1) trace, historically, how growth and change has been theorized in elementary schooling with particular focus on how the role of the teacher and the curriculum have been constructed; 2) analyze a "contingent, recursive" conception of growth and change called for by socio-cultural theorist, Nancy Lesko, and further developed by scholars of elementary education; and 3) re-imagine conceptions of growth and change in elementary schooling using other theoretical perspectives (e.g., feminist, culturally relevant, queer, social class-sensitive).