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.
