{"id":32282,"date":"2026-08-15T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribat.rabata.org\/riverstead\/?post_type=product&#038;p=32282"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:11:16","slug":"foundations-of-education","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ribat.rabata.org\/riverstead\/product\/foundations-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2026 &#8211; Foundations of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 950px; margin: 0 auto; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #2f2f2f; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p><!-- COURSE OVERVIEW --><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: linear-gradient(135deg, #33005c, #4b2366); color: #ffffff; padding: 32px; border-radius: 14px 14px 0 0;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin: 0; color: #ffffff; font-size: 30px;\">Course Information<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0 0; color: #f5edf8;\">This is a 3-credit course that carries the academic commitment, workload, and tuition associated with university-level study. Please review the course details and tuition information carefully before registering. If completed with a passing grade, the credits may be eligible towards a future degree or certificate program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- COURSE DESCRIPTION --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Description<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical, psychological, sociological, and historical foundations of education through both Western and Islamic lenses. Students will explore how ideas about knowledge, learning, and human development have shaped educational systems across time and cultures. Integrating insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, the course examines how the brain learns, remembers, and forms meaning\u2014linking classical theories of the mind with contemporary understandings of neural plasticity, motivation, and emotional regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through readings, discussion, and reflective analysis, students will engage with questions such as: What is the purpose of education? How do beliefs about the human person influence how we teach? How have educational structures historically advanced or constrained justice, equity, and human flourishing? Special attention is given to the educator\u2019s role as moral guide, intellectual cultivator, and agent of transformation within society.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- LEARNING OUTCOMES --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px;\">By the end of this course, students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Articulate core concepts in the foundations of education from Western and Islamic viewpoints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Compare and contrast historical trajectories of schooling and their underlying philosophies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Analyze how social structures such as class, gender, culture, language, and religion shape educational opportunity and experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Apply cognitive psychology and neuroscience principles (spacing, retrieval practice, cognitive load, emotion regulation) to design effective, ethical learning experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Evaluate claims about learning and identify neuromyths using empirical evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Interpret Islamic educational concepts in conversation with Western theories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Conduct a field-based observation that links classroom practices to the philosophical and sociological foundation of education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\u00a0Compose a personal philosophy of education synthesizing Western and Islamic perspectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- PREREQUISITES --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Prerequisites<\/h3>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f1fa; border-left: 5px solid #6f3b87; padding: 14px 18px; border-radius: 6px;\">This course is open to women ages 17 and above.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- COURSE MATERIALS --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Course Materials<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px;\">Students are responsible for purchasing all required textbooks before the start of class.<br \/>\nRib\u0101\u1e6d textbooks are available at the <a style=\"color: #5d2d76; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.rabata.org\/collections\/ribaat-texbooks-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rabata Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 18px;\">\n<div style=\"flex: 1 1 300px; background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; padding: 20px;\">\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Required Readings<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpts from the following will be provided through Canvas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plato \u2014 Republic (education passages)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aristotle \u2014 Nicomachean Ethics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Dewey \u2014 Democracy and Education<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paulo Freire \u2014 Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Ghazali \u2014 Ihya\u2019 \u2018Ulum al-Din<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibn Sina \u2014 selections on the soul and learning<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Farabi \u2014 Attainment of Happiness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibn Khaldun \u2014 Muqaddimah<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown, Roediger &amp; McDaniel \u2014 Make It Stick<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokuhama-Espinosa \u2014 The New Science of Teaching and Learning<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional readings<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be shared through Canvas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- REGISTRATION --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 16px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Registration Information<\/h3>\n<div style=\"background-color: #33005c; color: #ffffff; border-radius: 10px; padding: 22px; margin-bottom: 18px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 5px; color: #f4c95d; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;\">Registration Fee<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;\">$450.00<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0 0; 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Before enrolling, please review the <a style=\"color: #5d2d76; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ribat.rabata.org\/admissions\/tuition\/#riverstead_container\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Registration Fees &amp; Policies<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0 0;\"><strong>Questions?<\/strong><br \/>\nContact <span style=\"color: #33005c;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #33005c;\" href=\"mailto:registration@rabata.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registration@rabata.org<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- ATTENDANCE POLICY --><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; padding: 28px; background-color: #faf8fb;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 8px;\">Attendance Policy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">Students are expected to attend all scheduled class sessions and participate actively in their learning. 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Courses at Rib\u0101\u1e6d University are delivered through Canvas and may include video lectures, interactive discussions, digital readings, and multimedia assignments.<br \/>\nStudents are responsible for maintaining the technology needed to participate fully.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 22px 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Minimum Technical Requirements<\/h4>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Computer:<\/strong><br \/>\nA desktop, laptop, or similar device manufactured within the last five years and capable of running current software and updates. Students should not rely solely on a phone, as coursework requires a full computer interface and functionality.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Operating System:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe computer operating system should be kept current with all recommended security updates and upgrades.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Internet:<\/strong><br \/>\nA high-speed broadband connection with a minimum speed of 5 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Web Browser:<\/strong><br \/>\nA current version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Software:<\/strong><br \/>\nMicrosoft Office, Google Workspace, or Apple productivity applications for word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets; a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat; and updated antivirus and security software.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px;\"><strong style=\"color: #33005c;\">Multimedia:<\/strong><br \/>\nA functional webcam, microphone, and speakers or headset for participating in live sessions and assessments.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 22px 0 12px; color: #33005c; font-size: 18px;\">Technology Skills<\/h4>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ded4e3; border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 15px 18px; background-color: #faf8fb; border-bottom: 1px solid #ded4e3;\">\n<p>Students should be comfortable with basic computer operations, including using email, browsing the internet, uploading and downloading files, and navigating an online learning platform. 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