EDUC 653 - Teaching & Inquiry II: Critical Perspective

2 credit(s)
Teacher candidates continue their study of schools, others, teaching pedagogy, and research. Course details the teaching inquiry cycle: curriculum design, methods of data/assessment planning and collection, interpretation, and analysis through multiple perspectives and making strong connections between self as teacher, context, and student learning. Students explore more deeply the foundational concepts from Critical Perspectives of Identity and Social Systems. Students examine power, privilege, and oppression and understand how dominant cultural patterns shape and impact schools and other institutions. Students explore racism, classism, sexism, heteronormativity, ableism, ageism, and issues of religion, ethnicity, xenophobia. Students explore current educational trends and their responsibilities as teachers of general education students, special education students, and English Language Learners within the context of a learning community.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 606 and EDUC 612