Urban Education: Theory, Research and Practice

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course is designed to deepen knowledge and understanding related to the broad landscape of scholarship in the developing field of urban education. The course examines essential, foundational, historical and contemporary perspectives of urban education. Particular attention is placed on micro-, meso-, and macro-level structures, systems, institutions, policies, and practices that shape and influence urban and highly diverse contexts. The course considers outside and inside of school realities that influence students' opportunities to learn (poverty, race, geography of opportunity, gentrification, punishment referrals, juvenile justice system(s), and so forth). [3]