EDUC 8632 - Curriculum and Pedagogy for Social Justice (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Contact Hours: 3
This capstone course synthesizes theory and research for social justice and provides a framework within which students can demonstrate their abilities to conceptualize a social justice curriculum to apply to their specific teaching contexts. It provides a synthesis of social justice education concepts and places emphasis on students’ abilities to develop theoretically sound and culturally sustaining curricula that are directly applicable to their diverse teaching contexts. Students who successfully complete this course will demonstrate sociopolitical consciousness in their curriculum development and will evidence through their curriculum design, an integrated understanding of the importance of community and other funds of knowledge, curricular knowledge, and ongoing professional development in fostering culturally sustaining and just curriculum and pedagogy for racially, culturally, socioeconomically, and linguistically diverse learners.

Restriction(s): NO Undergraduate Level Students
Repeat Limit: Not Repeatable