Macalester College (CorruptED)

Macalester College’s courses feature content such as critical pedagogy, critical theory, decolonization, tenets of queer theory, and whiteness. Course texts include bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

COURSES

EDUC 240: Race, Culture, & Ethnicity in Education

The course EDUC 240: Race, Culture, & Ethnicity in Education includes topics such as decolonization and whiteness. Course texts include Derrick Bell, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.

The course description states that it will look “broadly at how historical conditions and policies have impacted the current landscape of mass schooling in the United States” and students “will explore how educational power has been distributed to effectively create vast disparities in how people of different racial, economic, linguistic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds have and continue to experience schooling.”

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EDUC 260: Critical Issues in Urban Education

The course EDUC 260: Critical Issues in Urban Education includes topics such as critical theory, critical pedagogy, “Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline,” “queer activism,” and “youth resistance.”

The course will use “critical theory to illuminate power dynamics embedded in educational systems.”

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EDUC 460: Education and Social Change Senior Capstone

The course EDUC 460: Education and Social Change Senior Capstone includes topics such as critical pedagogy and tenets of queer theory. Course texts include bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom and Paulo Freire.

The course description states that students will “engage in the Freirean notion of praxis, or the simultaneous process of reflection and action.”

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AMST 194: Ethnic Studies & Campus Activism

The course AMST 194: Ethnic Studies & Campus Activism includes topics such as campus activism, lilberatory education, post-colonialism, and whiteness.