ED 855 Education for Liberation
Temple University, College of Education, Philadelphia, PA
“Education for Liberation: Here and Abroad” is an interactive undergraduate seminar offered in General Education under “World Society.” Students from all majors will work collaboratively to critically examine education, economic development, and socio-cultural issues in the US and abroad. A variety of innovative approaches to investigating the non-Western, post-colonial educational traditions are used to deepen students' understanding of education in Western (modern and postmodern) settings. This knowledge becomes the foundation for examining the educational traditions of racial, ethnic, and culturally diverse groups in inner cities in the United States. Students will apply these multiple lenses for critically analyzing educational practices across different societies and create a transformative lesson plan for a community center in Philadelphia, based on lessons learned in this course. The course is designed around a number of central questions that facilitate comparisons and critical thinking.
Final Project by Senior, Takisha Hoist
AWS 2250 Race, Gender, and Social Justice
William Patterson University, Department of African World Studies Patterson, NJ
This course investigates the role and function of race, gender, sexuality and multiple forms of social oppression and inequality (better known as racism, sexism and heterosexism) within the lived experiences of African descended people in America. The 2008 presidential election has spawned the idea that we live in a “post-racial” society where race is no longer important and racism no longer exists. In order to tease out whether or not that is true (or even possible), we will examine and identify oppression in its many forms. We will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating, but not wholly unaltered, structures. A focus will be placed upon the consistency of social oppression within the post-Civil Rights era through an analysis of the impact of racism, sexism and heterosexism on such issues as the race/gender nexus, the criminal justice system, education, the media, housing and the interplay of race, racism and American popular culture.