Social Justice in Education for Sustainability

Catalog description

Advanced and in-depth exploration of the issues of power and inequality by addressing current issues from a variety of perspectives, possibilities and geographies. Key course concepts for social justice in education include cultural frameworks, social construct, and politics of epistemology. Examine historic and contemporary examples of informal and formal educational institutions as mechanisms of social, political, ecological and economic systems. Engage in critical research, analysis, writing, and development of programs in your field that strive to balance social justice education and learning as sustainability. This course is part of a service-based pricing program. Special tuition will apply for students enrolling in this course.