Education - Multicultural Approaches to Education

Multicultural Approaches to Education (EDUC 2350)

Total Credits: 3
Lecture Credits: 3.00

Description: This course will aid you in developing a cohesive curriculum philosophy that reflects your beliefs and values and in assembling an extensive repertoire of instructional strategies, tools, and resources designed to foster increased student power, achievement, and equity in education for all students. You will examine research-based instructional strategies for successfully meeting the varying needs of students from ethnically, ability, culturally, socioeconomically and linguistically diverse groups. You will participate in nontraditional pedagogical models in order to evaluate differences in pedagogy and the effectiveness of successful cooperative learning. Must be taken A-F.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Examine how personal understanding of race, class, gender, culture, ability and sexuality impact instructional choices in the classroom
2. 2. Identify the assets, characteristics, and needs of diverse learners
3. 3. Contrast how educational philosophical approaches affect curriculum, and instructional practices, particularly as it relates to anti-racist education, culturally relevant pedagogy, and critical pedagogy
4. 4. Develop an extensive repertoire of instructional strategies, tools, and resources designed to foster increased academic achievement and equity in education for all students
5. 5. Evaluate the characteristics of a thriving learning community in which individual and cultural norms are respected
6. 6. Demonstrate the role of praxis, reflection and self assessment as a professional

Prerequisites: 

EDUC 1500.