Advocating, Collaborating, and Learning Alongside Families and Communities: Centering Funds of…

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This course focuses on issues of diversity in US society and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the interdependence of culture, family, and the development of young children. It explores current theory, research, and practice on the relationship of culture (including, but not limited to, notions of race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity) to concepts of child competence, child rearing, family functioning, and parenting. This course examines the role played by schools, childcare settings, hospitals and other contexts in reinforcing cultural values and social inequalities. The course centers co-learning and collaboration to support students in implementing a commitment to effective communication, critical reflection, social responsibility, ethical practice, and competence in working across interpersonal and social/structural barriers and borders.