EDUC 2210

Methods and Contexts of Adult Learning: Leading and Teaching with Purpose at CLASP

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

Continues the field experience and curriculum begun in EDUC 2200. Students work with Cornell service staff to accomplish a variety of learning goals selected by the employees. Students receive in-service training and support. Seminars examine the impact of gender, race, and social class on learning and educational opportunity.

When Offered Fall, spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: EDUC 2200.

Course Attribute (CU-CEL)

• Students will develop a greater awareness and understanding of the service staff at Cornell University and a greater appreciation for their contribution to the community.
• Students will form a positive, teaching/mentoring relationship with a service worker.
• Students will recognize and question assumptions, improve communication skills, and broaden understanding of the experiences and perspectives of others (including similarities and differences).
• Students will cooperatively assess needs, establish goals, plan, and evaluate lessons with an adult learner while recognizing how power/empowerment impacts an adult learning relationship.
• Student will value their individual contributions to address a larger community need and become more predisposed to service and supporting efforts to provide adult learning in the future.
• Students will experience how personal growth, civic learning, and academic enhancement result from structured critical reflection in Service-Learning.
• Students will engage in reflective practice as a way to learn from experience.
• Students will recognize the influence of systemic inequities that limit members of certain groups in society.

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