Rutgers University (CorruptED)

Rutgers University College of Education courses feature topics such as critical race theory, Marxism, tenets of queer theory, white privilege, and whiteness. Course texts include bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom, Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

COURSES

Introduction to Education

The course Introduction to Education includes content such as critical race theory, tenets of queer theory, and white privilege. Course texts include Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

The course description states that it will “introduce key critical issues in education and then observe and reflect on them in practice” including “race; immigration; special education; gender and sexuality as well as theories of learning and teaching.”

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Education and Society

The course Education and Society includes content such as critical pedagogy, critical race theory, and tenets of queer theory. Course texts include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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Proseminar in Educational Theory and Practice

The course Proseminar in Educational Theory and Practice includes topics such as critical race theory, Marxism, queer theory, white privilege, and whiteness. Course readings include bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom, Karl Marx, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and Franz Fanon’s The wretched of the earth.

The course “offers an introduction to theoretical concepts and concerns that are central in understanding the complex relationships between education and society.”