University of Arizona (CorruptED)

The University of Arizona’s College of Education features content that includes critical theory, critical race theory, and postcolonialism. Course texts include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

COURSES

TLS 386: Global Citizenship: Reading the World and the Word

The course TLS 386: Global Citizenship: Reading the World and the Word includes Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

The description states that the course will focus on “developing the knowledge and perspectives that are essential to global citizenship through reading and responding to children’s and adolescent literature set in a wide range of global cultures.”

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TLS 681: Critical Content Analysis of Text and Image

The course TLS 681: Critical Content Analysis of Text and Image features content such as critical theory, critical race theory, and postcolonialism.

The description states that the “research methodology course explores the theoretical frames and research processes for critical content analysis of text and image, with an emphasis on children’s and adolescent literature as texts, although class members may look at other forms of text, such as advertisements, web sites, documents, etc.” The course also explores the “critical within content analysis as an interest in locating power in social practices and in understanding, uncovering, and transforming conditions of inequality, using theoretical frames such as critical discourse studies, postcolonialism, and critical race theory.”

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The College of Education also offers a Trans Freedom Summer School which includes a series of webinars such as “We Keep Us Safe: Abolition as a Path for Trans Liberation.” The website states that the “webinars are youth-friendly and were created with the intention of being for people aged 11 and up” however, “youth under 11 can still view these webinars, though, and are encouraged to do so with the adults in their lives to encourage conversation and reflection.”

We Keep Us Safe: Abolition as a Path for Trans Liberation

The We Keep US Safe: Abolition as a Path for Trans Liberation Micro Syllabus that accompanies the webinar states that it “leads participants in this youth-friendly webinar to explore the concept of abolition and how it works as a path towards trans liberation.”

Resources include links to Woke Kindergarten and the Abolitionist Teaching Network.