Course Description
Multicultural teacher education research, theories, and practices. Opportunities to construct understandings of the political and economic context within which decisions are made, the effect of values on multiple realities, the dominant forces in society, and the impact of culture on the individual in teacher education contexts.
Athena Title
RES MULTI TEACH ED
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDEC(EDMS) 8180 or ESSE 8180
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Develop understanding of concepts of culture as the foundation for multicultural and cross cultural education. Explore and share of personal experiences with diversity and perspectives on multicultural and cross cultural education. Identify and develop understanding of theoretical and conceptual frameworks guiding the work of educators and teacher educators in the fields of multicultural and cross cultural education. De-center and complicate diverse U.S. centered understandings of multicultural and cross cultural education by analyzing diverse international perspectives. Construct a time line/overview of social, historical, religious, philosophical, political, and educational contexts for multicultural and cross cultural education. Develop individual theoretical and conceptual frameworks to guide our work in multicultural teacher education and multicultural teaching. Examine research in multicultural teacher education to develop an understanding of pitfalls and possibilities to guide our work. Observe and interview instructors and students in the university setting addressing diversity issues. Observe and interview teachers and students in pre K-12 settings addressing diversity issues. Utilize frameworks to examine and evaluate texts, multimedia materials, strategies, and activities for use in multicultural teacher education. Utilize frameworks to examine and evaluate texts, multimedia materials, strategies, and activities for use in pre K-12 classrooms and schools.
Topical Outline
Perspectives on equity, cultural biography mapping, course planning, sharing and examining cultural biography maps and cultural artifacts bags, multicultural research, international perspectives, multicultural teacher education, white privilege, critiques of multicultural education and schooling, metaphors for multicultural education, historical perspective, cultural timeline, diversity in teacher education.
Syllabus
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