Foundations of Education
Program Overview
Students in the Foundations of Education acquire not only theory and research skills, but also tools that enable critique and creative responses to the social, cultural, political, and economic issues that surround the cultural reproduction of schooling.
Program Faculty
Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison, Professor
wesley@vt.edu
400b War Memorial Hall (0313)
Voice: 540-231-8331
FAX: 540-231-9075
Research Interests:
- Philosophy of Education
- John Dewey
- American Pragmatism
Recent Publications:
Garrison, Jim, ed. (Forthcoming). Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey: Pragmatism and Interactive Constructivism in the Twenty-First Century. Albany, New York: State University Press of New York.
Schneider, S. B. and Garrison, Jim (Forthcoming). Deweyan Reflections on Knowledge Producing Schools. Teachers College Record.
Garrison, Jim (Forthcoming). A Commentary on Clancey’s “Transactional Perspective on the Practice-Based Science of Teaching and Learning” In Timothy Koschmann (ed.)Theorizing Learning Practice. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Adjunct appointments with the departments of Philosophy and Science and Technology in Society.
Carol Brandt
Carol B. Brandt, Assistant Professor
cbbrandt@vt.edu
311 War Memorial Hall (0313)
Voice: 540-231-8495
FAX: 540-231-9075
Research Interests:
- Social dimensions of learning beyond the classroom
- Interactions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in educational practice
- Scientific discourse in higher education, in speaking and writing
Recent Publications:
Brandt, C. B. (Forthcoming in 2008). Scientific discourse in the academy: A case study of an American Indian undergraduate. Science Education.
Brandt, C. B. (Forthcoming in 2008). Discursive geographies in Science: Space, identity, and scientific discourse among indigenous women in higher education. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 3(2).
Brandt, C. B. (2004). A thirst for justice in the arid Southwest: The role of epistemology and place in higher education. Educational Studies, 36(1), 93-107.
Adjunct appointments in Women's Studies and Science and Technology in Society.
Foundations of Education Courses
EDCI 3024 Social Foundations of Education
EDCI 5104 Schooling in American Society
EDCI 5784 Deweyan Pragmatism & Education
EDCI 5784 Gender & Education
EDCI 5784 Academic Writing for the Social Sciences
EDCI 5784 Discourse in Classrooms & Schools
EDCI 5784 Informal Learning
EDCI 6024 The Analysis of Educational Concepts
EDCI 6034 Education & Anthropology
EDCI 6534 Ethnographic Methods in Educational Research