Factors and Components of Educability

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Overview

Subject area

EDD

Catalog Number

629

Course Title

Factors and Components of Educability

Department(s)

Description

Why do children appear to be so different in their ability to learn? Can we be satisfied with many versions of the "nature and nurture" explanation? What major factors affect students' educability? What are those more specific abilities that underlie educability and where do they come from? What does it mean to be psychologically ready for formal schooling? The course offers some non-traditional answers to these questions by challenging the view of abilities as stable intrinsic properties of the individual. The main focus is on what teachers can do to enhance students' ability to succeed academically. Prerequisite: Matriculation in Sequence 1 Graduate Childhood or Adolescence Education Program or EDD 609 or EDD 610.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Graduate

Liberal Arts

No

Credits

Minimum Units

4

Maximum Units

4

Academic Progress Units

4

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

4

Requisites

012503

Course Schedule