This course is organized around several questions - or sets of questions - about teaching, learning, and schooling. Together, these sets of questions will lead us through an analysis of what's going on in schools and classrooms today and how teachers should behave to maximize student learning. As you may guess, these are not simple questions or issues and... what makes it more difficult... is that there is enormous disagreement about the answers to these questions! Our course has six units and the units and their corresponding question sets include:
Unit 1: What does good teaching look like? Unit 2: What do 21st century schools and classrooms look like? Unit 3: How have we tried to reform education? Unit 4: Is our system of education really in that much trouble? Unit 5: How can kids possibly be bored in school? Unit 6: How can we teach in ways that are deeply engaging?
Education
作为一门学科，教育学是一门研究教育现象及其规律的社会科学，通过对教育现象、教育问题的研究来揭示教育的一般规律。作为一类专业，教育学包括教育理论的研究（如“教育学”专业）和教育活动的实践（如师范类专业）。此外，教育学作为一门综合性学科，与社会科学其他领域常有交叉，衍生出交叉方向。教育学类专业的学习内容一般包括教育哲学、教育技术学、教育社会学、教育心理学、教育管理学、教育经济学等。
