Course Description
Designed as a seminar in which doctoral students in Social Studies Education and those with related interests will engage in the scholarly literature related to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion as they relate to democratic life.
Athena Title
Diversity in SSE
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This doctoral seminar is designed to engage students in Social Studies Education and related fields with empirical and conceptual literature focusing on the relationship between diversity and democracy. The course introduces students to key readings from within social studies education research and allied fields of inquiry that focus on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. By the end of the course, students will: • Be able to situate diversity as a contested issue at the heart of democratic living. • Be able to explain historical and contemporary manifestations of the ways diversity is addressed in social studies education research and practice. • Utilize frameworks to analyze pre-k through 12 curriculum that engages issues of diversity and democracy. • Investigate the ways that one’s own subjectivity relates to any investigation of diversity and democracy.
Topical Outline
A. Subjectivity and Positionality B. Defining Terms (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Democracy) C. Exploring theories that frame conversations on diversity in social studies education D. Exploring the history and persistence of issues such as the following in terms of how they relate to democracy as well as manifest in social studies research and practice: a. Race b. Class c. Gender d. Sexual identity e. Religion f. Ability