Institutional Change and Public Education

2-3 credits · Graduate

The purpose of this year-long course is to ground emerging teachers in the essential ideas and values that guide their work in schools and their studies in the Berkeley Teacher Education Program. It provides opportunities for future teachers to deepen their notions of what socially just, democratic programs, initiatives, classrooms and schools look like, and why; to analyze the challenges to creating socially just, teaching and learning spaces; and to imagine the possible actions that teachers can take to promote such classrooms and schools.