EDUC 298 | Change Makers in Education

The goal of this course is to investigate the actions and ideas of change makers in education, spanning this past century, to venture answers to these overarching course questions:
-What are schools for in our democracy and what does that purpose mean for students and teachers?
-What actions and ideas, on the part of individuals and/or groups, facilitate change in American schools?
-In our labors for just schools and communities, how can we ensure that we leave no one behind?
Knowledge is power and history has shown that empowering education, as a right, for all people, not just those with access and privilege, must continually be fought for. Our investigation will focus on stories of people who have been marginalized from empowering education and the courageous actions taken on the part of different individuals and communities to ensure democratic access to empowering education.
As we engage in this investigation we must continually ask why different groups were and continue to be marginalized from empowering education and how our educational system both upholds and contests inequity.
This course requires weekly volunteering in a local classroom or community organization.