Soc & Symbolic Borders in Ed

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Social & Symbolic Borders in Education The aim of the course is for the participants to obtaing knowledge about and insight to understand and describe the different concepts that shape and individual's meaning of border, in particular the US-Mexico border region. Students will understand the underlying implications of such meanings on the educational systems they are a part of and what can be done to effect systematical change. The course has the following three main units: 1)Geospatial, political, historical, and categorical boundaries; 2)Poverty, inequality and education, and 3) Agency, power, and forces for change in education. Restricted to Doctoral students .