FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

Introduction to the psychological, philosophical, sociological, and historical foundations of education as way to understand what education is, how education has become what it is, and to envision what education should be.

• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Drew Chambers
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• Instructor: Ishrat Ahmed
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• 4 points

EDUC FOUNDATIONS - DISC

• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Drew Chambers
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• 0 points

Critical Pedagogies

CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES

This course explores education as a process through which critical consciousness and epistemic justice combat oppression in communities. Students will connect seminal work by critical pedagogues, such as Paolo Freire and bell hooks, to systemic educational challenges and lived experience. As a class, we will investigate power dynamics and structural inequalities at the systemic, institutional, interpersonal and individual levels. Students will problem-pose, dialogue and create pedagogical tools through praxis, by integrating the theory learned in the class to educational practice.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Fawziah Qadir
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• 4 points

Ethnographies of Youth Confinement, Cons

Youth Constraint & Resist

Being young can often mean being (or feeling) powerless, particularly within the large
institutions that structure youth’s lives. Couple this with experiences of marginalization due to
race, class, gender, or other social identities, and young people may experience profound
constraints in their choices or pathways. At the same time, youth – both individually and in
groups – often develop strategies to resist these sources of literal and figurative confinement to
seek out dignity, joy, and justice. Using sociological and ethnographic texts as our foundation,
this course will explore the way experiences of confinement and constraint show up in the lives
of young people, particularly as they move through educational institutions – and how youth
work to resist those forms of subordination.

In the first half of the semester, we will focus on policing and prisons and examine the ways
schools play a role in funneling youth into different forms of confinement. In the second half of
the semester, we will investigate college and college preparatory contexts in an effort to
understand the ways they may constrain opportunities by creating or foreclosing particular
pathways for students’ futures. Throughout the semester, we will emphasize the role of socially
constructed identity categories – race, gender, class, in particular, as well as the category of
youth itself – in these processes of confinement and constraint. We will also highlight youth and
community practices of resistance against these social and institutional forces. Along the way,
we will consider (and practice) the affordances and limitations of ethnography as a mode of
social research for studying confinement, constraint, and practices of resistance in educational
contexts.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Through this course, students will:

● Use a range of sociological, ethnographic, and multimodal texts to analyze youth’s
experiences of confinement, constraint, and resistance (expansively defined) and the
ways they play out in different institutional, educational, and social contexts.
● Explore the methodological approach of ethnography – its affordances, challenges, and
some of the major dilemmas in the field – and practice it by conducting a series of
scaffolded ethnographic projects.
● Write for multiple purposes, including exploratory and dialogic writing shared with peers

• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nora M Gross
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• 4 points

Families, Communities, and Schools

FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES & S

This course seeks to examine the role families and communities play in P-12 public schools in the United States, with a focus on urban school systems. We will be using New York City as a case study, and comparing what we see happening in the nation’s largest public school district to other districts around the country. While much of our focus will be on the NYC Department of Education, which serves approximately 1.3 million students each year, students will be asked to look close to home to examine the relationships between families, communities, educators and educational institutions in their own communities.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
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• 4 points

MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND EDUCATION

Globalization and mass migration are reconfiguring the modern world and reshaping the contours of nation-states. New technologies that facilitate the movement of information, goods and people across borders have made it easier for people to remain culturally, politically, economically and socially connected to the places from which they migrated. This seminar focuses on the experiences of the youngest members of these global migration patterns—children and youth—and asks: What do these global flows mean for educating young people to be members of the multiple communities to which they belong?

This seminar will explore the following questions: What is globalization and why is it leading to new patterns of migration? How do children and youth experience ruptures and continuities across contexts of migration? How do language policies affect young people’s capacity to be educated in a new land? What does it mean to forge a sense of belonging and citizenship in a “globalized” world, and how does this challenge our models of national citizenship? How are the processes by which young people are incorporated into their new country entwined with structures of race, class, and gender? Drawing on fiction, autobiography, and anthropological and sociological research this class will explore these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Orubba Almansouri
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• 4 points

Making Change: Activism, Social Movement

Activism and Education

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Semester version:

Making Change: Activism, Social Movements and Education will look at the ways people power has pushed for change in the United States educational landscape. We will study historical and current social political education movements to answer questions such as: What does education/teacher activism look like? Who engages in educational social activism, and why? What do different models for organizing look like, past to present? We will learn from the examples of the Freedom Schools, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Tucson Unified School District fight for ethnics studies, BLM at Schools, Teacher Activist Groups and more. We will engage in readings, watch documentaries and hear from education activist guest lecturers.

Learning Outcomes: 


You will explore the historical relationships between and across social movements in education and its social contexts. 

You will reflect on major educational justice movements from across the country and analyze its impact and importance. 

You will evaluate the changing role of education and schools in our society and propose actions that could be taken to improve education and schools in the future.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Fawziah Qadir
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• 4 points

EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN COMPARATI

EDU SOCIAL CHANGE CONTEXT

This course will examine the relationship between education and social change in different regions of the world, with a focus on vulnerable populations (e.g., indigenous
groups, street and working children, immigrants, women and girls; refugees).

• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Fawziah Qadir
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• 4 points

SCIENCE IN THE CITY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. In partnership with the American Museum of Natural History students investigate science, science pedagogical methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for science teaching and learning. Sessions will be held at Barnard and the museum. Field trips and fieldwork required. Non-science majors pre-service elementary students and first year students, welcome. Note: Students in the Childhood Urban Teaching Program may use this course as a pedagogical elective.

• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Althea B Hoard
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• 4 points

SEMINAR URBAN EDUCATION

SEMINAR IN URBAN EDUCATION

This seminar serves as the capstone course for students pursuing the Education Studies minor/special concentration or the Urban Studies major/concentration with an Urban Education Specialization. The Seminar in Urban Education explores the historical, political and socio-cultural dynamics of urban education in the U.S. context. Over time, a range of social actors have intervened in the “problem” of urban education, attempting to reshape and reform urban schools. Others have disputed this “problem” focused approach, arguing that policy makers, teachers, and researchers should start from the strengths and capacities located in urban communities. Despite decades of wide ranging reform efforts, however, many urban schools still fail to provide their students with an adequate, equitable education. Seminar in Urban Education investigates this paradox by pursuing three central course questions: 1) How have various social actors tried to achieve equity in urban schools over time? 2) What are the range and variation of assets and challenges found in urban schools? and 3) Considering this history and context, what would effective reform in a global city like NYC look like? Students will engage these questions not only through course readings and seminar discussions, but through a 40-hour field placement in a New York City public school classroom, extra-curricular program, or other education based site.

• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel Throop
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MULTICULTURAL ELEMENTARY PEDA

This seminar will engage prospective teachers in developing effective strategies for teaching at the elementary school level in ways that draw upon five specific domains of knowledge: knowledge of self, content, pedagogy, context and students. Students will be introduced to a variety of teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to teach various subjects to students in urban public school settings, understanding the intellectual, social and emotional needs of elementary school students. Students will learn to write lesson plans, develop assessments and practice teaching in “microteaching” sessions taught to peers. We will explore state standards, approaches to classroom management, and Universal Design for Learning as we develop approaches to create caring, democratic learning communities.

• W 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

MULTICULTURAL SECONDARY PEDAG

What does it mean to be an excellent teacher? The Seminar in Secondary Multicultural Pedagogy will engage this question as you work to develop methods for teaching your subject(s) in ways that draw upon five specific domains of knowledge: knowledge of self, content, pedagogical methods, context, and students. You will be introduced to a variety of multicultural teaching approaches and develop ways to adapt them to your particular subject area and to the intellectual, social, and emotional needs of adolescent learners. Throughout the course, we will consider how to effectively differentiate instruction for and support ELL students and students with special needs. Seminar sessions will include discussions, presentations of lessons, group activities, and problem-solving issues teachers encounter in the classroom. We will explore culturally responsive approaches to: learning; learning standards; instruction and assessment; creating caring, democratic learning communities; selecting curriculum content, and engaging all students in learning. Assignments will ask you to reflect on the teaching/learning process in general, and on the particulars of teaching your academic discipline. We will accomplish this through lesson planning, practice teaching two mini-lessons, observing your peers teaching and offering feedback, and exploring stances and strategies for multicultural pedagogy in your content area.

• W 4:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE CITY:CRITICAL

ARTS & HUMANITIES IN THE CITY

Using the theme of “Arts and Humanities in the City”, this seminar will build participants’ knowledge of critical literacy, digital storytelling methods, and ways to use New York City as a resource for teaching the Arts (Dance, Theatre, Music, and Visual Arts), Social Studies, and English Language Arts in grades K-12. Critical literacy is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing students’ abilities to read, analyze, understand, question, and critique hidden perspectives and socially-constructed power relations embedded in what it means to be literate in a content area.

• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Drew Chambers
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• 4 points

SEM: ISSUES URBAN TEACHING

CRITICAL INQUIRY URBAN TCHNG

Corequisites: EDUC BC3063 or EDUC BC3065. Enrollment limited to student teachers enrolled in the Education Program. Designed to help student teachers develop as reflective practitioners who can think critically about issues facing urban schools, particularly how race, class and gender influence schooling; and to examine the challenges and possibilities for providing intellectually engaging, meaningful curriculum to all students in urban classrooms.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria S Rivera Maulucci
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• 4 points

Senior Research Seminar: Methods of Inqu

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR I

This course is the first semester of a year-long senior capstone experience for the Educational Studies major. Over the course of the year, students will design and carry-out an inquiry project, and they will report on this project through an appropriate medium, for a specific purpose and audience. To this end, we will address the following: the relationship between theory, experience, and the development of a research question; the research methods that are appropriate for our research; the purposes of our research; the consequences our research might have and for whom; how we analyze data; and how we communicate with the audience of our research.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
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• Instructor: Nora M Gross
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• 4 points

SCIENCE IN THE CITY FIELDWORK LAB

SCIENCE IN CITY FIELDWORK

• W 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• R 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Althea B Hoard
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• 0 points

ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY FIELDWORK LAB

ARTS&HUMANITIES IN CITY L

• M 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• W 2:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Drew Chambers
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• 0 points

RACE. SPACE, URB SCHOOLS

RACE. SPACE URB SCHOOLS

Many people don’t think of themselves as having attended segregated schools. And yet, most of us went to schools attended primarily by people who looked very much like us. In fact, schools have become more segregated over the past 30 years, even as the country becomes increasingly multiracial. In this class, we will use public schools as an example to examine the role race plays in shaping urban spaces and institutions. We will begin by unpacking the concept of racialization, or the process by which a person, place, phenomenon, or characteristic becomes associated with a certain race. Then, we will explore the following questions: What are the connections between city schools and their local contexts? What does it mean to be a “neighborhood school”? How do changes in neighborhoods change schools? We will use ethnographies, narrative non-fiction, and educational research to explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. You will apply what you have learned to your own experiences and to current debates over urban policies and public schools. This course will extend your understanding of key anthropological and sociological perspectives on urban inequality in the United States, as well as introduce you to critical theory.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Amelia S Herbert
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• 3 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

• Instructor: Thea R Abu El-Haj
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• Instructor: Lisa Edstrom
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-4 points