EEDMING - Emancipatory Education

Graduate Minor

College of Education

Graduate

The minor in Emancipatory Education is focused on encouraging P20 educational leaders across all sectors (e.g., teachers, faculty, administrators, and policy makers) to develop liberatory approaches to education. The overarching goal of the minor is to encourage students to be active participants in seeking transformative educational praxis, which involves moving beyond identifying problems and challenges and toward creative approaches to improving educational systems and practices. Furthermore, students are invited to actively question, interrogate, and envision new educational horizons, rather than reproducing the increasingly inequitable ground upon which education has been built.

-Critically analyze the process of education and schooling from historical, political, and sociocultural lenses.
-Develop lesson plans and programmatic designs that incorporate praxis-based learning concepts.
-Articulate the importance of emancipatory educational practices in the current U.S. sociopolitical landscape.
-Communicate effectively orally and in writing.