Course Description: EDUC 6371
Education Policy
Description:
This course is designed to help prepare leaders of education and training technology to be effective actors in the policy processes of local schools, corporations, and non-profit organizations. Policy is one of the primary means by which leadership is exercised. The course will help students to discern the premises underlying various policies, to participate effectively in the policy process, and to understand the potential and limitations of policy.
Objectives:
- Provide students with considerable knowledge about education and training policy.
- Understand how to identify the fundamental policy problem lying within a set of circumstances that might have misleading or confusing elements.
- Help each student to prepare a credible education or training policy proposal for a problem or opportunity of interest to him/her.
- Help each student to be able to craft policy proposals that have a good chance of being adopted, being implemented as intended, and improving education or training.
