University of Vermont (CorruptED)

The University of Vermont’s College of Education features topics such as critical race theory and whiteness. Readings include Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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EDTE 056 D1: Language Policy Issues, Race & School

The course EDTE 056 D1: Language Policy Issues, Race & School features content such as “Whiteness Identity & Privilege,” “Critical Race Framework” and critical race theory, and “Raciolinguistic Discrimination.” Required reading for the course includes selections from Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Delgado and Stefancic’s Critical race theory: An introduction, and Johnson’s Privilege, Power, and Difference.

The course description states that this “introductory course explores the theories, practices, and policies related to the intersection of race, language policy, and school” and “how language is used to construct notions about race impact the teaching and learning of English learners in multilingual and multicultural settings.”

The syllabus states that course “fulfills the 3-credit D1 (Race & Racism) requirement, and it also fulfills the first course for the Education for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (ECLD) minor.”

Course learning objectives include students developing an “awareness of the influence and impact of diversity-related concepts such as intersectionality (i.e., the intersection of multiple dimensions on diverse cultural identities), power and privilege at the individual, group, and systems levels especially as it relates to shaping restrictive language policies throughout US history” and to “develop the ability to recognize and name dynamics (e.g., identity-related, cultural, power) at the individual, group, and systems levels that are present when exploring issues related to diversity.”