EDU71012

Students enrolled in the “Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy” course will explore fundamental challenges and contradictions in educational practice and theory as a means to work toward a shared vision of a more sustainable—socially just and ecologically responsible—world. An aim of this course is to model critical pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching that is intellectual and experiential, individual and collective, and theoretical and practical. Students taking this course will study effective praxis, theoretical foundations of critical pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching. Students will also study practical aspects of the classroom that include lesson planning, teaching techniques, reflections on student learning, and politics of knowledge. Through the process of inquiry, this course will operate as a learning community where all students, as both educator and learner, will be encouraged to imagine new ways of seeing and acting in the field of education and the role it plays in problem-solving for a multitude of social and environmental challenges. The course will culminate in the implementation of student-designed Critical Pedagogy Action Projects.This course satisfies PreK-12 administrator certification requirements.