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This course investigates issues and possibilities of urban education. What can we learn about equity and teaching and learning from students, teachers, parents, and administrators as well as outside researchers and activists?
This course explores key tensions in the contested areas of multicultural education:
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Desire based Empowerment in the Classroom
Personal Growth and Self Image
Relationships: Actions, Presence, and Connection
Welcome to the spring 2015 semester of Schools in American Cities!
This course is designed for students to investigate the issues, challenges and possibilities of urban schooling. The purpose of the course is to create a community of learners who will conduct inquiry into both theory and practice to build an understanding of critical issues in urban education. Through readings and viewings, writings, field experiences, and discussions, participants will address a range of factors that create the conditions for teaching/learning and reform in city schools.
Welcome to the spring 2015 semester of Multicultural Education!
This course is structured to recognize and explore a set of key tensions within and surrounding the contested areas of multicultural and peace and conflict education:
The Many Faces of Health and its Relation to Empowerment
Clarifying the Spectrum from Deficit to Desire Based Approaches:
Deficit-Based Approach: A linear model, application-based, values efficiency, deals with single variables, sets controls for variables. Patches up a problem externally; streamlines and compartmentalizes. Approaches problems from what's lacking rather than what's possible.
