Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

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EDCS 8010 - Critical Cultural Theories & Pedagogies for Empowering Education


Provides an advanced examination of the relationships between schools and society, focusing predominantly upon critical theory and its derivatives, in order to understand the role of education and schools’ unique position within society. Any institution with power has the ability to do good, as well as the power to do harm. Explores empowering pedagogies that emanate from critical theories in order to address the role of power and related concepts in educational institutions and provide pedagogical tools for educators and students to critically examine the implications and consequences of how we educate. Examines the societal, cultural, institutional and personal domains as we inquire into how we might educate all our young people well in the midst of changing social and institutional contexts, power, and resistance.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Explore and identify aspects of contemporary socio-cultural contexts that impact education today, such as family structure, poverty, the media, economic production, privatization, social values, religion, language and culture.
  • Identify and analyze historical and contemporary educational movements/moments that are illustrative of the critical theories as they relate to bringing about empowering social change.
  • Identify and analyze historical and contemporary educational movements/moments that are illustrative of the critical theories studied as they relate to bringing about empowering social change.
  • Recognize why and how educators might respond to current and changing social conditions by identifying various educational aims, alternative pedagogies, school structures, educational funding, and curriculum in order to offer an empowering education.
  • Understand that education always represents a given socio-cultural context; it is never neutral or value-free; rather education necessarily includes relationships of ideology and culture, power and domination, as well as resistance and empowerment.
  • Understand the public and hidden relationships between school and society by focusing predominantly upon Critical Theory and its historical and contemporary derivatives, such as Progressive, Emancipatory, Post-Colonial, Feminist, and Queer.



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