LANGUAGE POLITICS AND EDUCATION

EDPOL 145

Introduction to K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the United States. Examines the multiple and sometimes conflicting goals that animate education debates; the discourses and representations of schools, students, and education policies that shape policy and politics; research on education and education policy; and the various lenses and conceptual tools that can help us understand education policy. Includes original policy texts, empirical and conceptual research, current events, and film. Considers how key themes may be useful (or not) for thinking about early childhood education, higher education, and K-12 education in historical and contemporary, US and and global, contexts.

CURRIC 764

An introduction to language instruction policies and linguistic human rights. Examines teaching and learning in a multilingual society. Explores the various dimensions of the language used in the schools for instruction in different countries during the globalization process.

EDPOL 640

Introduces the social, political and cultural influences surrounding educational policies and practices and the role of teachers in education policymaking. Focuses on the purpose(s) of schooling, considering questions such as: What should the purpose of schooling be? How do our assumptions regarding the purpose(s) of schooling shape our understandings of education policies and practices? Considers educational inequalities and contemporary education policies.

EDPOL 460

Examines policy issues surrounding the education of children from immigrant families in K-16 educational settings in the U.S. Explores the economic, social, political, and ideological contexts of immigration and education, as well as school factors and home-school relations through readings, discussions, and assignments. Considers the impact of various policy and pedagogical approaches. Course readings draw from relevant literature in educational anthropology, sociology of education, educational policy, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy.

EDPOL 205

Examine cultural and language politics, policies, and practices in education. Read in the fields of anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language policy to consider how language policies, politics, and practices either reinforce or reduce educational and social inequality.