TLS549

042199

This course is designed to describe and analyze K-12 school Ethnic Studies teaching. Through critical reflection around issues of race, gender, class, language, culture, ethnicity, and the discourse of whiteness in schooling, the transformational potential of Ethnic Studies teaching will be investigated. The course will examine Ethnic Studies pedagogical strategies rooted in Indigenous Meso-American epistemologies that were the framework for the highly successful Mexican American Studies program in Tucson, Arizona. In addition, students will identify, apply and share humanizing practices in their classroom engagement of Ethnic Studies through critical praxis, in building curriculum lessons and units aligned to Ethnic Studies tenets. Embodying an equity literacy lens as its foundation in the critique of schooling and teaching, the course will draw upon analyses of empirical and theoretical literature, as well as conceptual self-reflection. Furthermore, students will experience how to cultivate a classroom culture that will support the development of student critical thought, analysis and action beyond required standards.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate