SC ED 353

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Foundations of Multicultural Education

Teacher Education David O. McKay School of Education

Course Description

This course equips teacher candidates to embrace sociocultural diversity, create inclusive learning spaces, and navigate power structures. Honor students’ cultural and linguistic resources, background, and build trust for effective teaching. Essential for developing content-specific pedagogies.

When Taught

Fall; Winter; Spring.

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2

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Title

Identify Cultural Assets

Learning Outcome

Identify deficit thinking and articulate specific ways that teachers can use cultural differences and diversity as resources in their practice.

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Educational Positionally & Inequity

Learning Outcome

Identify historical and contemporary causes of educational inequity, including the role of individuals, ideologies, and institutions in reproducing unequal schooling conditions for marginalized groups

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Responding to Sociocultural Diversity

Learning Outcome

Recognize and consider how to respond to sociocultural diversity in educational contexts including race, social class, gender, sexuality, ability, ethnicity, language, religion, and other social categories.

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Moral and Spiritual Commitments

Learning Outcome

Develop moral and spiritual commitments to lead out in promoting respect for all God’s children to root out prejudice, discrimination, and oppression and promote belonging within schools and society.