EDBM 220

Multicultural Curriculum, Advocacy, and Community

This seminar is a philosophical and pedagogical exploration of the historic, legal and sociocultural foundations of American education with emphasis on issues of power, identity, representation, and change. It examines how history, political and economic agendas, and discrimination shape schooling access and curriculum practices; and, considers ways to transform education to strengthen student-family-community-school involvement. This course is applied in that it mandates that students develop an action research plan for implementing or strengthening student-family-community-school involvement in schools and/or community settings.

Units: 3.0