Taught By:
Eugene Pringle
Senior Professorial Lecturer
Education Policy and Leadership
American University
pringle@american.edu
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Course Description:
This course offers insights on the historical and educational perspectives of social activism and civic engagement as liberatory practice in K-20 education setting. This course will span social and resistance movements and the chronicle the ways in which they helped to shape educational practices and policies at the intersections of race, ethnicity, and other identities. Through pedagogies of resistance and democratic educational models, the course will engage students in interrogative discourse of educational resistance and reform, trace the historical movements in the American educational system , and center liberatory practices as a mode of change social and civic change.
