SC ED 353
Multicultural Education for Secondary Education
Teacher Education
David O. McKay School of Education
Course Description
Prepare teacher candidates with skills and dispositions to recognize, critique, and respond to equitable learning environments for all students. Explicit attention will be given to race, social class, gender, sexuality, ability, ethnicity, language, religion, and sociocultural diversity.
When Taught
Fall, Winter, Spring
Grade Rule
Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)
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3
Fixed
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Title
Recognize Privilege and Inequity
Learning Outcome
Recognize and acknowledge racism, discrimination and other forms of inequity and privilege in themselves, in others, and within institutions.
Title
Effects of Culture on Learning and Teaching
Learning Outcome
Acknowledge the dynamics of culture and diversity in school success and teachers' teaching. This includes recognizing and overcoming deficit thinking.
Title
Inclusive Civic Engagement
Learning Outcome
Learn to appreciate and value differences. Recognize how diversity enriches opportunities for learning and engagement in the various communities they participate.
Title
Critical Dispositions
Learning Outcome
Recognize and use a personal moral spiritual framework. Demonstrate a willingness to engage in self-critique and exploration, developing meekness, comittment to advocacy, and lifelong habits of reflection about self, others and institutions. Exploring frames of reference, ways of knowing, culture, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicty, language abilities, immigration, social class, poverty, potential bias in theses frames and
Title
Cultural Identities
Learning Outcome
Examine and understand the various dimensions of cultural identity, including one's own, and apply this knowledge to through a process of reflection.
Title
Theoretical Frameworks
Learning Outcome
Recognize and use a personal moral spiritual framework along with principles and concepts of social science to guide educational accomplishments for diverse learners.
