<p>Seminar, four hours. Examination of diverse set of foundational theories for educational researchers concerned with understanding, designing, and studying transformative, culturally sustaining, and democratic educational practices. Includes both founding parents and neo perspectives in emancipatory/liberatory pedagogy, sociocultural/sociohistorical activity theory, critical race theory, cultural modeling/culturally sustaining pedagogy and contributions from learning sciences, indigenous, post-colonial, sociological, political-economic, and anthropological approaches to educational research. Attends both to original ideas and how they have changed over time, as well as how faculty in the Urban Schooling program draw on these frameworks for their research. Letter grading.</p>

Education

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The department is a leader in the study and practice of urban education and issues of access, equity, and quality facing early childhood, K-12, and higher education.

General Catalog

Conceptual Frameworks for Research in Urban Education

EDUC241

4 units