CMAT 6220 Cross Cultural Perspectives on Schools and Communities

Cross Cultural Perspectives on Teaching, Schools and Communities offers students the opportunity to apply research findings and analytical frameworks to gain cross cultural perspectives about the community context of schooling and the critical relationships between professional practice, family, and community. The course examines the forces of globalization and immigration and their relationship to schools and community settings. Candidates will examine teaching and learning practices in diverse classroom settings, school practices and home-school relations. The aim of the course is to have teacher candidates develop an understanding of the interconnectivity of the social, economic, and political dynamics at play in community life and the impact they have on the learning process. Themes such as, but not limited to, cultural production and reproduction, the sources of conflict, kinship and family, school success and failure, cultural difference will be explored and applied as part of the candidates’ clinical internship Prerequisite(s): CMAT 5100 , CMAT 5070 , CMAT 5310 Co-requisite(s): EDUC 5170
Credits: 3.0