Chicana/o Education

Catalog description

This course deconstructs the history of education through the lens of culture and race. Using a framework of intersectionality, the creation of public education, and the impact of historical shifts within the law concerning education will be examined. Special emphasis is placed on the role of ethnicity in the development of the United States and its education system. Includes an overview of multicultural/multilingual curricula with a special focus on culturally / linguistically responsive instruction and assessment practices. This course provides a critical examination of race and culture using multicultural theoretical frameworks to analyze the conditions of education today. Additionally, this course will particularly foreground Latinx and Chicanx resistance and revolution in the realm of education and what this history and activism teaches us about our own identity, worldviews, environment, and ways of understanding in the contexts of both informal and formal processes and experiences of education.