Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Hill Book (Class of 2025) 
    
2021-2022 Hill Book (Class of 2025) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

EDU 609 - Educational Equity and Inclusivity

Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters

This course introduces students to the reality of schools as diverse spaces encompassing a range of student needs and examine efforts to ensure equity in education.  Issues of race, class, culture, language, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and ability will be discussed and examined, especially how they intersect to reproduce inequality.  Students will reflect on individual beliefs in relation to social justice education and democratic education and examine unintended consequences of policy/practice that create or perpetuate inequitable environments and opportunities in schools.  Strategies for promoting educational equity and inclusivity will be discussed.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: M.Ed. in Inclusive Education