University of Colorado Boulder (CorruptED)

The University of Colorado Boulder College of Education courses feature topics such as critical pedagogy, teacher activism, and white privilege. Course texts include reading from Paulo Freire and bell hooks.

COURSES

EDUC 3013: School and Safety

The course EDUC 3013: School and Safety includes content such as critical pedagogy, decolonization, teacher activism, and white privilege. Course texts include readings from Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

The course will “critically examine the role of education in a diverse and pluralistic democracy” and “Students will “examine the relationship between democracy and education, including how educational institutions and practices might be structured democratically.” The course will also help students “develop an awareness of race, ethnicity, class, gender and other lines of difference, and explore how schooling might be structured in ways that build equity and justice.”