EDU 104 CC: POWER & POLITICS IN EDUC
This course investigates hot-button educational issues in the U.S. with a focus on schools as sites of political and cultural struggle. Each semester, the instructor identifies three school-related topics that are currently being contested in classrooms, school district offices, school board meetings, city governance, the judicial system, or the legislative system. (Recent topics have included the debates over critical race theory in K-12 classrooms, school library book-banning, and policies about transgender students in athletics.) Students will explore the historical and social contexts that underpin each issue, the underlying assumptions and ideologies that guide various stakeholders' perspectives on each topic, and the consequences of each policy decision for young people.
Enrollment Limit
Enrollment limited to 24 students.
Attributes
CC, MOIE