EDUC1210

Multicultural Education introduces students to core concepts and approaches to multicultural education including issues related to student, family, and community diversity based on culture, language, race, class, gender, and sexual identity. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating the multicultural competence required of all successful teachers working with today?s diverse youth. Awareness of the history, language, and cultural background of Minnesota-based American Indian tribes and various immigrant groups will also be addressed. Student Learning Outcomes

• Investigate identity formation and how the sense of self is formed in a social-cultural context.
• Define dehumanizing institutional and personal biases, discrimination, prejudices, racism and sexism.
• Interpret multiple theories of race and ethnicity, including racial formation, processes of racialization, and intersectionality.
• Assess how biases, perceptions, and academic training may affect teaching practice and perpetuate oppressive systems.
• Analyze the histories and social struggles of historically defined racialized groups
• Research the cultural content, world view, and concepts that comprise Minnesota-based American Indian tribal government, history, language, and culture.
• Investigate how ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, deficit-based teaching, and white supremacy undermine pedagogical equity.
• Summarize how culture influences knowledge creation and ways of knowing.
• Evaluate the influence of social groups and their role in student learning environments.
• Strategize ways to align with a student?s cultural background to make meaningful connections necessary for the construction of knowledge and acquisition of skills.