Northern Arizona University (CorruptED)

The Northern Arizona University College of Education features topics that include critical theories, social justice, and whiteness.

The College of Education offers a Masters of Education (MED) in Educational Foundations with a description that states students will examine how “nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, social class, language, ability, and a range of other identities shape” educational contexts.

COURSES

EDF 500: Cultural Foundations of Education

The graduate-level course EDF 500: Cultural Foundations of Education features topics such as ageism, critical theories, and sexism.

The course rationale states that it “introduces students to the contemporary cultural forces that shape the contextual relationship between teacher and the student, the nature of the subject matter, the views of achievement and the critical role that education plays in society.”

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EDF 584 – Racism In U.S. Schools And Society: Investigating Whiteness And Constructions Of Race

EDF 584 is one of the core courses for this Masters program. The course description states that it examines “racism in schools, with a special focus on how race has been constructed and how whiteness operates and is maintained.”

The College of Education also offers this course as EDF 484 to undergraduate students.

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EDF 673 – International Education

EDF 673 is another core course, which discusses “social justice,” sustainable development, and cultural diversity.

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Northern Arizona University also offered an Equitable & Inclusive Teaching Seminar (EITS) to faculty who teach introductory level courses (100 and 200 level). The objective of EITS was to train faculty to approach their courses with an “equity-minded lens” and to provide them with guidance on “building inclusive classroom spaces.” Participants analyzed their own class-level data and made “inquiries into equity gaps (or absence of equity gaps) across multiple student identities.”