Global Childhood Education: Diversity, Education & Society

Catalog description

This course focuses on increasing awareness, sensitivity, and understanding of the diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and family backgrounds of children in education from broader perspectives. It provides students with an opportunity to explore the multicultural American society as well as the global communities. It starts by learning about ourselves that is a basic foundation to understand and respect others. It also offers a chance to see, feel, and think in a different way than we have ever had before. Such mental, emotional, and intellectual "bothering and challenging" is consistently planned and encouraged in this course in order to reexamine our taken-for-granted assumptions and expectations. This course discusses the critical issues by connecting them to application into educational practice and settings. Therefore, it attempts to incorporate the various meanings and concepts of social justice, equality, multiculturalism, diversity and globalization and internationalism into education. IIIB. PA-4C.