EDFN 440, Schooling in a Diverse Urban Society

Online Syllabus

Prof. Zavala; Spring 2009

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Week 1 Course Introduction  
  Course Syllabus  
  Weekly Writing Assignment Guidelines; Student Sample  
  MacLaren's "Critical Pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts"  
  Freire & Macedo. The Importance of the Act of Reading.  
     
Week 2 U.S. Urban Schools: Racial and Economic Histories  
  Spring."Deculturalization and the Claim of Racial and Cultural Superiority by Anglo-Americans."  
  Anyon. "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work."  
  Bowles & Gintis. "Education and Personal Development: The Long Shadow of Work."  
     
Week 3 State Control of Public Education: Convergence of Interests  
  Apple. Educating the 'Right' Way. CHAPTER 1 and CHAPTER 2.  
     
Week 4 Economic Control of Public Education: Marketization & Privatization  
  Apple. Educating the 'Right' Way. CHAPTER 3 and CHAPTER 4.  
     
Week 5 Rethinking Parent "Inolvement" in Education  
  de Carvalho. Family-School Interactions: Lessons From Personal Experience  
  Knight. The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories.  
  Lopez. The Value of Hard Work: Lessons on Parent Involvement from an (Im)migrant Household.  
     
Week 6 Federal Policies, Metropolitan Inequalities, and Urban Schools  
Anyon. Radical Possibilities. CHAPTERS 1 - 7.
     
Week 7 Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Education  
  Course Project Proposals Due  
  Freire. Pedagogy of Freedom. CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3.  
     
Week 8 Critical Multiculturalism and Democratic Education  
  hooks. Teaching to Transgress. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3, 4.  
     
Week 9 Pedagogy, Hope, and Social Transformation  
  hooks. Teaching to Transgress. INTRO., CHAPTERS 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.  
     
Week 10 Course Review, Projects  
  Research Project Presentations  
     
Week 11 Finals Week  
  Research Project Reports Due: Wednesday (June 10)  
     
  Critical Research/Inquiry, Resources  
 
Community Demographic Portrait:   Parent Interviews Project:
     
     
Handout (Useful websites and resources)   Handout (Interview Questions)
 
     

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