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Community Contexts in Middle Grades Education


Course Description

Investigate how community contexts influence middle grades students’ decisions, relationships, and learning environments through applied practice in school and community settings.


Athena Title

Community in Middle Grades Ed


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in EDMG 5010, EDMG 7010


Non-Traditional Format

This course will be taught 95% or more online. Students will spend an additional 1-2 hours in the field per week.


Prerequisite

Permission of department


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student learning Outcomes

  • By the end of this course, students will know how to investigate the relationships between school and community contexts and young adolescent learning.
  • By the end of this course, students will know how to explore opportunities and strategies in order to advocate for young adolescents, middle grades schools/educators, families, communities, and themselves.

Topical Outline

  • • Ethnography in education
  • • Teachers as change agents
  • • Funds of knowledge
  • • Critical literacies: power, perspective, positioning

Syllabus


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