Critical, Anti-colonial, & Decolonizing Theories in Education

Catalog description

Explore relevant principles, problems, and practices related to a variety of critical and race-based epistemologies. Analyze key tensions in US-based approaches to educational theory and curriculum inquiry and then study, discuss, reflect, and apply race-based and anti-/ de-colonial approaches to educational theory and curriculum inquiry emergent in the US and beyond. Engage in critical reflection on the implications of such approaches for their work as educators, mentors, and researchers. Progress toward confronting the tensions surrounding racial socialization in students' own lives as citizens, educators, and researchers; participate in structured writing and reflection to identify the ways these levels of engagement can be developed through newfound understandings of how knowledge systems have historically been shaped by colonizing ideologies. Equip students to commit to informed action steps in schools and communities that bring about sustained efforts toward equity for all learners.