AP/HREQ 3964 3.00
Equity and Human Rights in Schooling
This course incorporates a critical human rights and critical pedagogy to examine inequality and equity in education from a human rights perspective. It engages with critical human rights literature linking educational rights to critical human rights. This course challenges racism, marginalization and discrimination blocking the access, participation, and achievement of racialized and minority students, at different levels of the educational institutions.
This course analyzes how class, race, genders, special needs, ethnicity, 2SLGBTQ+, age and mental health operate to influence the educational experiences and progress of students. This course critically questions educational rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Provincial Multicultural and Intercultural Policies. The course examines if educational institutions correct injustices and inequalities and provide equal and equitable opportunities for all students thereby creating social and economic mobilities at national and international levels. This course explores avenues of opportunities to improve equity in schooling and recognitions of students' educational rights.
Prerequisite: 24 credits