EDLF 714
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Multicultural Education
Course Description
Multicultural issues in educational theory and practice, with special reference to race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and various types of exceptionality.
When Taught
Contact Department
Min
3
Fixed/Max
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Title
Epistemological assumptions
Learning Outcome
The student will gain and evidence a greater sensitivity to both epistemological assumptions, proxemic patterns and discourse patterns that tend to characterize various subcultural groups along the lines of race/ethnicity, SES, and gender, and nation-of-origin.
Title
Application to teaching and learning
Learning Outcome
The student will learn to apply this heightened sensitivity to teaching and learning in the pluralistic postmodern classroom, as well as to being a site-based educational leader and policy maker/interpreter.
