AA82/LGSC82/Soc82:

The Racial Politics of Teaching

Faculty Facilitators: Carmen Fought and Kathy Yep

DESCRIPTION:
In educational institutions, we often hear the terms diversity training, multiculturalism, bilingualism, cross-cultural competency, and zero tolerance.  These concepts point to the centrality of race as a social construction in schooling and education.  This class examines how race and ethnicity are defined in schooling from sociological, linguistic, and ethnic studies standpoints.  Specifically, we will discuss how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling and ways teachers/educators may refine their pedagogies in relation to race and ethnicity. This class is based on a participatory education model and so your commitment to be an active contributor is essential to the learning process for all.  The readings are in a smaller quantity so students will take more time to read them closely, to engage with them, and to extrapolate from them. Please bring your reading to class in order to be able to refer to it during discussions.

Course objectives:

• To develop analytical tools to examine race and ethnicity from two different disciplines
• To examine the politics of education in relation to pedagogy and curriculum

To apply the tools and theories learned in the class to society

• Fall 2007

• Film (John Chen, Grace Yau, Christine Wong)
• Curriculum (Libby Gollhofer, Colton Neves, Liz Hamilton)
• Curriculum ( Emilie Sasson)
• Critical Pedagogies Applied Artpiece (Vernon Clemons)
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• Facilitation on Privilege (Shatara Ford)
• Feminist Dialogues Workshops (Phoebe Woerner)
• Paper on Critical Pedagogies/Sycamore Elementary (Mara Sutton-Barnes)
• Voices from the Margin magazine (Steven Liang)
• Paper on ESL pedagogies (Amaris Cox)
• Paper on Social Construction of Southern Accents in the Media (Laura Gowans)
• Paper on Critical Pedagogies (Sammy Loveless)
• Paper on Solidarity, Critical Pedagogy, and Student Organizations (Dayna Downing)
• Position Paper on Critical Multiculturalism and Scripps Core class (Nicole Montojo)

• Fall 2008

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• Cynthia Castillo (the Multiculturalisms: comparing10th grade home school and public school curriculums)
• Jeannette Charles (Freirian curriculum in Spanish 1 classes)
• A.J. Doty (Critical Pedagogies in college classrooms through the visual and interviews)
• Katie Dutcher (Critical Pedagogies in Elementary School)
• Kristin Fukushima (Racial Politics of Teaching in Sponsor Programs)
• Marisela Gutierrez (Language Ideologies and Elementary School teachers: An educational intervention)
• Heather Halk (Racial Politics of Facilitating Gender/Feminist Workshops at a liberal arts college)
• Andrea Kretchmer (Afro-centric curriculum in a magnet high school)
• Stephon Striplin (Language Ideologies and College Students: An educational intervention)
• Megan Toyama/ Christina Yamada (Remembering activist origins: creating a critical workshop about the origins of S.C.O.R.E)
• Olivia Werby (Facilitating Whiteness/White Privilege Dialogue Groups at a College Campus)

• Fall 2009

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  Chen, Melissa
  Franquez, Jaquelyn
  Friedlander Moore, Alex D.
  Geonetta, Alex
  Hanft, Sam
  Hann, Tristan M.
  Kao, Anita
  Matsuda, Koichi
  Spang
  Park, Allison M.
  Renn, Jennie
  Samson, Maryan
  Sawada, Kaori
  Stonberg, Maura R.
  Wiggins, Lily F.
  Williams, Nisha A.

Fall 2010

Fall 2011

Fall 2012