Diversity in Education

Catalog description

This course will examine organizational and professional access and equity in the contexts of culture, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, ability, and gender-viewing these contexts through connections among divisions of labor, class structures, power relationships, group marginalization, cultural images, residential patterns, health, family life, employment, education, and values. In addition to the challenges related to diversity, participants will also explore aspects of diversity as potential assets in creating rich and productive professional environments. Students will then apply the knowledge they gain from these explorations to the framing, analyzing, and generating solutions to contemporary educational problems.