EDUC 644 - Teaching & Inquiry: Research & Perspectives

3 credit(s)
Introduces teacher candidates to the inquiry process, including reflection, data gathering, and idea implementation, as fundamental to teacher and student learning. This course uses critical systems theories to examine issues of schooling. Students explore social identity markers such as race, ability, gender, socioeconomic class, special education status, sexual orientation, language, and immigration status, and develop awareness of how their own backgrounds and positionalities influence who they are as teachers. The course calls attention to the teacher’s responsibility to understand both self and difference as a requisite to engage in equitable teaching practices and pedagogy.