Introduction
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Educational Background
Schedule

Division of Division of C&I and Division of EFIS

Chogollah Maroufi
Professor

Office: KH A2048
Phone: 323-343-5115
Email: cmarouf@calstatela.edu

INTRODUCTION

We need to examine all our cherished notions and beliefs in education, bottom-up, top-bottom, inside-out, and outside-in. It's a complicated and worthwhile task. We need to re-imagine education as a socio-politico-theological system, and reintroduce absurdity and skepticism, and even a sprinkling of cynicism and nihilism, as tools of learning and instruction. Education should be used to teach to question everything and anything and dismantle all sorts of fundamentalism and unquestioned certainties deeply embedded in education and elsewhere, especially in religions. Education should be used as a source of individual liberation and empowerment, and as a force for social transformation, equality, justice, and freedom.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Curriculum and instruction (philosophy, principles, methods of instruction) Foundational studies (the role of philosophical skepticism in education, socio-psychological foundations of learning and instruction, philosophy of education, political and moral education, learning and motivation theories, methods of teaching and learning.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Socio-cultural and socio-psychological foundations of learning and instruction.

Representative Professional Activities

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. C&I and Foundations Studies 1988
UCLA