EDUC 242Learning, Culture, and Schooling
Education · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Education typically refers to explicit efforts by experienced members of society to instruct new members in acceptable ways of thinking and acting in that society. Study of how learning sciences—broadly, social sciences interested in study of learning, with particular focus on variants of psychology—attempt to explain human cognitive development, and how people learn to think and act. Investigation of how accounts of learning and development can be, and have been, used to inform instruction in school. Focus on schools primarily as means to examine how theoretical perspectives on learning can inform praxis and scholarship or educational justice and equity.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.