CIED 2050 Foundations of Bilingual and Multicultural Education

This course provides students with a broad historical, political, social, legal, and practical understanding of bilingual and multicultural education. Language plays a key role in K-12 students’ social identity development, and teachers’ work is critical in helping students shape a positive sense of self. This course examines K-12 students’ identity development with an intersectional lens, considering how multiple, overlapping identities (gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, and others) might shape students’ experiences in the K-12 system. Unequal access to education as a persistent issue of human rights and social justice in the United States is a central topic of study. As such, the course engages students in critical discussion about historical and current civil rights movements for educational equity in the United States, exploring the impact of power and oppression in such struggles. Students explore, analyze, and consider how to apply recent research about how curriculum, instruction, and assessment can represent powerful efforts toward social justice.

UCC Area K (Identities & Inequalities) Course Objectives: Explore and critically analyze social identities and inequalities, their intersectionalities, and the impacts of persisting inequities across cultural contexts.
Credits: 3.0