AP/HREQ 3605 6.00
Race and Diversity in Education
This course uses a critical human rights approach to identify and explain stereotyping, discrimination, and institutionalized racism in the school system. Linkages of racism to class, gender, language, religious difference, and other forms of diversity are analyzed and strategies for achieving social equity are explored. This course will examine how the unequal distribution of power disadvantages marginalized groups impacting their opportunities to participate and achieve at different levels of our education system. Discussions will be based around anti- oppressive education models and how these alternative pedagogies can be used to advance social justice and equity in our schools. We question how do marginalized youth experience the classroom compared to youth who have status and class; and what systemic racism in Canada looks like in the education system.
Course Prerequisites: 24 credits