Sociocultural Context of Edu

Catalog description

Sociocultural Contexts of Education: This course addresses how social, cultural, and economic relations of power are present in education systems and institutions. Key emphases of this course include how these issues are challenged and reconstructed in formal and informal education. Debates about the goals of public education in a democratic society are explored through anthropological, sociological, and cultural studies approaches to education, focusing on the social structures within which schooling is embedded.