University of Texas at El Paso (CorruptED)

The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Education and Department of Teacher Education courses feature topics such as critical race theory. Course texts include Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement by Angela Davis and selected works from Paulo Freire.

COURSES

TED 5313: Diversity In Educational Settings

The course TED 5313: Diversity in Educational Settings includes topics such as critical pedagogy, critical theory, critical race theory, and whiteness. Course texts include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

The course is “designed to empower students to construct and generate knowledge necessary to the development of teaching competencies that allow them to become teachers as social transformative intellectual leaders.”

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TED 6300: Critical Perspectives in Curriculum and Instruction

The course TED 6300: Critical Perspectives in Curriculum and Instruction includes topics such as critical pedagogy, critical theory, critical race theory, decolonization, and Postmodernism.

The course objective states that “some of these experiences and cultural knowledge become dominant over others in social relations of power, creating a condition called hegemony” and it “intends to challenge this kind of knowledge if it represents the cultural knowledge of elite that builds the legitimated curriculum of school, students from disenfranchised cultures need ways to critique these structures and express their own cultural identities.”

Course assignments include students creating “Publishable” lesson plans for any grade level that “involve one or more of the following teaching strategies and components” such as “Deconstructing oppressive structures; Participatory democracy; Critical Pedagogy; Critical multiculturalism; Social justice: Equity, Access, Empowerment; Diversity: race, class, gender, socio-economic; Humanism; Educators as social agents.”

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TED 6319: Ethics in Education

The course titled TED 6319: Ethics in Education includes topics such as Marxist thought, Palestine, critical race theory, white supremacy, whiteness, decolonizing practices, feminism, empowerment, and resisting neoliberalism. Course texts include Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement by Angela Davis and selected works from Paulo Freire.

According to the course description, students will “reflect on their praxis and experiences to develop humane values of self-determination and self-realization, and social and individual empowerment.” The course examines the “fundamental ontological nature of students and educators’ identity” in order to “deconstruct ‘social amnesia’ of individualism and its effects on collective’s ‘social agency and sociological imaginary’ within contexts of postcoloniality in contemporary society.”

Ultimately, the course’s purpose is to “propose curricular, policy, and transformative pedagogical approaches which enable dialectic/dialogical dynamics for social justice.”

Student outcomes include the following goals:

• Deconstructing the “ideology of White supremacy and patriarchy through schooling experiences in U.S. institutions where democratic imaginary and ideological aims are formed.”
• Promoting “the establishment of equality, access, and empowerment.”
• Examining “the political underpinnings of education and research that deconstructs hegemonic oppressive systems which guarantees dialectic pedagogies for social justice and decolonizing practices.”