COMMUNITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND JUSTICE

EDPOL 585

Examines how and why different families and communities engage in education, with an emphasis on issues of power and equity. Focuses on social science approaches to understanding family and community engagement in K-12 schooling in the U.S. Opportunity to explore historical and philosophical approaches, and family and community engagement in international, higher education, and other contexts.

EDPOL 810

Engage with and discuss the historical, ideological, and contemporary issues surrounding community-based spaces and programs serving youth. Topics will include: grassroots organizing and activism, pedagogies of the home, academic outcomes and access to higher education, full-service community-schools/school-community partnerships, social identity, funding and philanthropy, neoliberalism and education privatization, and after school and out-of-school time education. Examine the social and political context of community-based educational efforts in order to understand how they can be nurturing spaces of resistance for youth, as well as spaces of conflict and social reproduction.

ELPA 735

Coordinating and effective utilization of school-based special services in the context of student diversity with attention to values, theory, and research underlying curriculum, instruction and policy, in terms of social class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and race.

CURRIC 731

Critically examine the process of collaboration and its multiple forms among professionals in the creation of inclusive school communities. Explore various methods and tools for collaboration that promote effective team relationships, problem solving, and co-planning of differentiated curriculum and instruction. Activities and projects are problem-based and focus on generating solutions to programmatic, student-specific, or school-wide issues related to inclusive education. Acquire skills to engage in collaborative teamwork and act as change facilitators within a school system.

CURRIC 240

Investigates aspects of social justice and equity as they relate to teaching, schooling, and education.