If You Love It, Teach It
1.0 DHHS Credits
Course No. 005
(If You Love It, Teach It EDCI 1100) 3 UCONN Credits
This is an educational foundations survey course for those who are interested in learning more about the landscape of K-12 education and how to connect their passions to it. If You Love it, Teach It engages students interested in working in K-12 settings in studies about teaching, learning, and schooling in the United States. It explores teaching and learning as processes that can relate to personal passions as well as how those passions are shaped, cultivated, or denied in different educational contexts. Course topics will include introductions to historical, philosophical, and social foundations of education, as well as how those foundations and personal passions relate to teaching as a profession, school organization, educational reform, and the reimagining of educational futures.