EGALITARIANISM AND EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE

EDPOL 355

Public education in the United States is an inherently political site that offers an important institution to understand politics, power, and injustice broadly. Explore these themes from multiple angles: (a) the layered histories of injustice at the intersection of race, class, gender, and more in historical and present cases; (b) the power of ideas in shaping policy possibilities; (c) shifting levels of governance and questions of injustice; and (c) perspectives of key actors, interests, and stakeholders. Consider the politics of education in relation to broader social, spatial, historical, and political economic contexts. Develop critical analytic and conceptual tools to deeply understand and analyze how power and politics are impacting contemporary educational policy events. By drawing from grassroots and subjugated perspectives, cultivate a policy imagination towards more just educational possibilities, and explore the necessary policy infrastructure and movements to sustain them.

EDPOL 147

Examines a variety of ethical questions in education, including: What justifies educating people, in the first place? What does equity in education require? Who has the proper authority to make decisions about education? Introduces analytic tools that educational ethicists use to investigate foundational and applied questions. Understand and evaluate major views on a range of such foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.

CURRIC 240

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

EDPOL/PHILOS 550

Critical examination of classical and contemporary conceptions of moral education.

EDPOL 212

Learn theories and practices of educating for social justice, a pedagogical-political approach based on participatory methodologies that is committed to positive social change. Discuss popular education, peace and human rights education, critical pedagogy, and related approaches. Engage in theoretical debates, focusing on the ideas of transformative educators such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks, and learn about radical educator collectives and transformative education efforts in districts, schools, classrooms, community associations, and NGOs from around the world.