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CIED
37 courses with the subject CIED, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CIED 401Introduction to Comparative Education3
Origins, nature, scope, basic literature, and methodology of comparative education. Study of sample topics. CI ED 401 CI ED (EDTHP) 401 Introduction to Comparative and International Education (3) (IL) The course introduces undergraduate students to global issues in education and provides a survey of schooling practices used in various educational systems around the world. Students will have the chance to create an individual research project that will allow them to explore one country and one global educational issues in depth. Students are required to attend all classes, participate in the discussion sections, and take notes on the films shown. These films play an integral part in the course and provide students with views into classrooms and schools around the world. Students will also have access to international databases and be expected to make use of these databases in developing their projects. Finally, in-class discussions will focus on how comparative educational studies have been used by politicians to influence educational reform around the world.In this course, we will survey the state of public education in the world today. Each student will focus on one nation and provide a synopsis of educational practice in that nation. We will then move on to focus on global or cross-national issues such as how competition between "core" nations like Singapore and the U.S. drives reform (GOALS 2000 or No Child Left Behind). Other issues will include power differences between north and south, education for democracy, barriers to girls and women's education in developing nations, as well as education and national identity. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 401
This course examines the global impact of education on human rights, health, economic development, political mobilization, religion, and environmental sustainability. The education revolution has significantly changed the world's population from one largely unschooled to one mostly schooled in just the last 150 years, yet the full impact of this major transformation is only now emerging through social science research. The course will explore, at both the individual and societal levels, how education changes many dimensions of global society in both positive and negative ways. It also focuses on the use and misuse of educational programs in social and economic development worldwide through Non-Government Organizations (NGO's), national governments, and multinational agencies. Enforced Prerequisite at Enrollment: 5th semester standing Cross-listed with: EDTHP 410, GLIS 410, SOC 410 General Education: Social and Behavioral Scien (GS) GenEd Learning Objective: Crit and Analytical Think GenEd Learning Objective: Global Learning GenEd Learning Objective: Soc Resp and Ethic Reason
Introduction to the examination of educational theory and practice from philosophical perspectives, classical and contemporary. CI ED 440 CI ED (EDTHP) 440 Introduction to Philosophy of Education (3) The major objective of EDTHP (CI ED) 440, Introduction to Philosophy of Education, is to broaden and deepen the students' understanding of the nature of education. Such a study involves exploring the ends as well as the means of education. It includes both an examination of some of the distinctive or defining characteristics of "educated persons" as well as the different elements of the learning experience (including curricula, pedagogies, and evaluative processes) that encourage the development of such persons. As part of developing an understanding of the educational enterprise, this course will introduce students to some of the important ideas and theories that comprise the rich tradition of educational philosophy. In the design of a course of this nature with constraints established by space, time, and the background of the student, it is necessary to confront the task of making judicious selections from the vast literary wealth accumulated over the centuries. In doing so, the decision made has been to focus primarily on the literary contributions of western philosophers of education. In the interest of making the sample varied and interesting, however, an effort has been made to include writings of some philosophers of education from different cultural contexts. The educational thoughts of A.S. Neill, John Dewey, Eliot Wigginton, Maxine Greene, Paolo Freire, Mohandas Karamchand Ganddhi, David Orr, Ivan Illich, and Wendell Berry, among others, will be explored in this class. The exposure to diverse, rich, and provocative ideas of the educators included for study here will, it is hoped, stimulate students to re-examine and further develop their own philosophy of education into a more comprehensive, coherent, and consistent one. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 440
An introduction to the history, philosophy, organizations, learning theories, and instructional procedures used in American and foreign distance education. Cross-listed with: ADTED 470
CIED 503Ethnicity, National Identity, and Education3
Surveys group-oriented education policies internationally, especially comparing those of Britain, Taiwan, India. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 507, HIED 503
Examination of globalization discourses and their relationships, implications and impacts on lifelong learning processes and contexts. ADTED 508ADTED (CI ED) 508 Globalization and Lifelong Learning (3) The course is designed to help students to critically examine the nature and impacts of globalization on lifelong learning. The main goal
CIED 509Language, Literacy, Identity, and Culture in a Global Context3
Examines the relationship between issues of language, identity and culture for adult learners in an increasingly global context. ADTED 509 ADTED (CI ED) 509 Language, Literacy, Identity, and Culture in a Global Context (3)This core required course provides graduate students in the ADTED Ph.D. program a critical overview of the literature, theories, and scholarship examining the complexities inherent in an increasingly diverse global and post-colonial sphere. Explorations of historical, theoretical, postcolonial perspectives will be the focus, as will the daily portrayals of diverse peoples by the media. Participants in the course will be expected to familiarize themselves with the readings portraying the complexities of ethnicity, indigeneity, race, gender, and social class. Evaluation will focus primarily on writing a scholarly paper, preparing video materials that illustrate the issues, writing their personal educational histories, and participating in class. Cross-listed with: ADTED 509
CIED 511Educational Ethnography: History, Theory, and Methods3
This seminar shows students how to use ethnographic methods for education research to inform classroom practice and education policy. The course is centered around the idea that school communities serve as key sites for students of all ages to learn to become members of their culture(s). Course readings include historical to contemporary works of researchers who have shaped educational ethnography. We will also read about education in various settings and discuss anthropological explanations of inequities experienced by minority culture communities or marginalized groups. Students will carry out a mini-ethnographic study based on their area of research interest. The course is especially designed for students to be able to conduct ethnographic studies or make use of ethnographic techniques in future research projects. Cross-listed with: CI 511
Recommended Preparations: A graduate course in educational ethnography This seminar will show students how to use video ethnography in education research. The course is rooted in what is popularly known as the Preschool in Three Cultures method (also known as video-cued multivocal ethnography). We will learn about and watch Graduate - The Pennsylvania State University 2026-2027 1021 films using video-based ethnographic research methods. Students will also carry out mini-video ethnographies in a local classroom. Cross-listed with: CI 513
Education is one of the most important factors affecting major demographic shifts and processes worldwide, including the first and second demographic transitions. If, as the old sociological adage goes "demography is destiny," then our destiny is educationally transformed demography. Interdisciplinary research across demography, sociology, neuropsychology, and epidemiology is developing a strong research literature about how the thinking style, behavior, and attitudes of the educated human radically change fundamental dynamics underlying the world's population. The whole way in which we come to our jobs, spouses, and lifestyles; how many children we have and how we raise them; how long we are likely to live, and what will be our eventual demise are all heavily influenced by how much education we have had. The collective force of widespread education and its influence on rising cognitive abilities, scripts for living, and economic well-being are creating a distinctly new type of human population with major benefits and future challenges for a sustainable human population. At the same time, individuals' schooling is also influenced by demographic change. This seminar covers key concepts, theories, and methodological issues related to the intersection of demographical and cultural changes from the education revolution and their impact on subsequent demographic processes. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 516, SOC 516
CIED 524Comparative Education Research Using Large-Scale Data3
This course is designed to give students an overview of large-scale international assessment databases and to demonstrate how these databases can be utilized to investigate critical issues in education from a comparative perspective. A number of empirical studies using large-scale international assessment databases will be reviewed, and these analyses will be replicated via computer labs. Students will develop a good understanding of large-scale international assessment databases and will learn to apply an appropriate method to address a particular topic of interest. Students will also develop a wide range of research skills necessary to independently conduct comparative research, including but not limited to formulating a research question, conducting a literature review, analyzing empirical data, and interpreting results. Although the focus is mainly on datasets relevant to education and education policy research, the skills taught in the course are broadly transferable to other social sciences including sociology. Recommended Preparations: Students should have taken either EDTHP 513 and EDTHP 538 or EDTHP 553 as well as EDPSY 505 or SOC 574 before enrolling in this course. Cross-listed with: EDLDR 524, EDTHP 524, HIED 524
CIED 538East Asian Education, Leadership, and Reform3
The social and organizational characteristics of East Asian schooling, including understandings of authority, power, and leadership, and systemic school reform. Cross-listed with: EDLDR 538
Educational theory and practice in relation to contemporary movements in philosophy. CI ED 541 CI ED (EDTHP) 541 Contemporary Philosophies of Education (3) This graduate seminar explores a range of contemporary philosophies of education viewed from the perspective of different varieties of postmodernism. The study of modern and postmodern western thought is combined with explorations of eastern thought including viewpoints that are emerging today in both the northern and southern hemispheres. While focusing on contemporary educational ideas, it traces their roots in classical and non-modern philosophical sources. This look at the present in terms of the past reveals the paradigm shift presented by contemporary postmodern educational thought. In doing so, considerations for the issues of race, class, gender, ecology, multiculturalism and the regeneration of diverse incommensurable cosmovisions, severed or overlooked by some educational philosophers, are explored in their reintegration by contemporary postmodern philosophers of education. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 541
CIED 545Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Lifelong Learning3
This course introduces students to some of the major bodies of literature related to race and gender, with a focus on how these intersectional perspectives help to shape our understanding of adult education and lifelong learning. The first part of the course is an overview of several key concepts including global theories of race and gender relevant to diverse societies in distinct geographical locations. The second part of the course explores the intersection of race, gender, and education through the writings of critical feminist scholars. Through this course, students will learn how to analyze race, gender, and class not as independent categories but deeply interconnected spheres of subjective and objective experiences. Students will also learn how theories of race and gender can inform their analyses of adult education policy and practice. Cross-listed with: ADTED 545
Examines the educational policy process world-wide and the influence on schooling of children, youth, and adults in national education systems. CI ED (EDTHP) 550 Comparative Education Policy Seminar (3) In this course students will learn how educational policy is made around the world and what influence this policy has on the schooling of children, youth, and adults in national systems of education. Students will examine recent trends in educational policy that have originated at the international level. Methods of policy research and evaluation will also be examined. The main goal of the course is to give students an understanding of international processes in policy formation and detailed knowledge of current education policy trends worldwide. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 550
CIED 553Educational Mobility in Comparative Perspective3
Role of education in social mobility, using quantitative, qualitative, and historical methods; focuses comparatively on Britain, East Asia, and South America. CI ED 553/SOC 553/EDTHP 553/HI ED 553 CI ED 553. (SOC 553, EDTHP 553, HI ED 553) Educational Mobility in Comparative Perspective (3)Sociologists interested in higher education have attended to the relationships between postsecondary institutions and other institutions, as well as the impact on higher education of general social and demographic processes. Many of the classical ideas in sociological theory, including those of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, have surfaced in recent debates over the nature of higher education. Sociologists in the U.S. have explored such questions as: the gatekeeping function of higher education; the impact of universities on stratification; and the socializing environment for women and minorities. This seminar introduces some of the classical theorists and contemporary researchers of the sociology of higher education. All seminar participants will be required to write a sample research proposal, based on the readings from the seminar. Cross-listed with: EDTHP 553, HIED 553, SOC 553
Concepts, issues, and methods of validation of educational and psychological assessment including models and approaches to validation, bias, and utility. EDPSY (CI ED) 555 Validity of Assessment Results (3) The goal of this course is to enable the student to acquire a broad perspective on issues and considerations in the process of validating interpretation and uses of tests, scales, assessment procedures, or protocols. Issues of validity are examined from many perspectives including a review of current dominant and alternative validity theories, of known threats to validity, of some advanced specialized statistical techniques; and of test bias, legal issues, psychological/behavioral issues, social/consequential considerations, and philosophical considerations. Additionally, applications are provided through in-depth cross-cultural and historical studies, technical reviews of published commercial tests, and in-depth examinations of controversies. Cross-listed with: EDPSY 555 Graduate - The Pennsylvania State University 2026-2027 1023
CIED 562Politics, Language and Pedagogy: Applying Paulo Freire today3
Examines the work of Paulo Freire as it applies to community action projects. ADTED 562 / CIED 562 Politics, Languages and Pedagogy: Applying Paulo Freire Today (3) The life and work of Paulo Freire will be the focus of this advanced graduate seminar. Freire was one of the foremost adult educators of our time. Graduate students participating in the course will read and reflect on his vision and how it evolved over time, critiques of Freire, the ways in which his ideas have been applied in diverse geographic and practice settings (e.g., education, community development), and implications for research, policy, and practice. Students will explore how elements related to Freire's work, such as conscientization, transformative action, and pedagogy for liberation, influence pedagogy and community action projects. Readings will include Freire's books, scholarship on Freire, and case studies of Freirean projects, among others. Cross-listed with: ADTED 562
CIED 570Comparative and International Adult Education3
Critical and comparative analysis of adult education theory and practice outside North America, including international agency involvement. Cross-listed with: ADTED 570
Comparative methods of studying structural variations in systems of higher education in principal industrialized nations and other selected countries. Cross-listed with: HIED 571
This course offers an in-depth coverage of social theory, especially as it intersects with research and practice in adult education and lifelong learning. Considering that educational research, educational practice, and the politics of justice in education are informed by specific theoretical frameworks, this course will explore historical and epistemological foundations of theories and engage core modernist theories, postmodern and critical theories, and the theorizing found in Global South discourses. Cross-listed with: ADTED 581
CIED 582Reviewing and Editing Education and Policy Journals3
Introduction to education policy journals and the review and editing process; discussion of emerging issues within the academic publishing industry. Cross-listed with: EDLDR 582, EDTHP 582, HIED 582
CIED 587Curriculum, Culture, and Child Development3
Examines human development and cultural factors in planning, designing, and implementing curriculum and instruction in early childhood and childhood education. Cross-listed with: ECE 587
/Maximum of 9 Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
/Maximum of 9 Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or semester.
Background, intervention strategies, and issues related to developing intergenerational programs and practices aimed at addressing vital social and community issues. Cross-listed with: EDCE 845
