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CURRIC 823

COLONIALITY OF LANGUAGE AND SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

3 credits.

Explores interdisciplinary theories on coloniality used in education research, with a focus on historicizing and interrogating hierarchies of language, race, and scientific reason. Examines distinct analytics of power offered by raciolinguistic perspectives, postcolonial science studies, and postfoundational curriculum studies.

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Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Read and discuss core literature related to postcolonial science studies, raciolinguistic studies, and cultural studies, and articulate implications of these theories for education research, policy, or practice. Audience: Graduate 2. Describe how science, language, voice, race, and coloniality have been theorized across literatures. Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze assumptions of science, language, race, or coloniality in an educational artifact and makes explicit the analytic of power Audience: Graduate 4. Research and write a paper examining the coloniality or racialization of language, science, and education in relation to the student’s research interests. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Read and discuss core literature related to postcolonial science studies, raciolinguistic studies, and cultural studies, and articulate implications of these theories for education research, policy, or practice. Audience: Graduate 2. Describe how science, language, voice, race, and coloniality have been theorized across literatures. Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze assumptions of science, language, race, or coloniality in an educational artifact and makes explicit the analytic of power Audience: Graduate 4. Research and write a paper examining the coloniality or racialization of language, science, and education in relation to the student’s research interests. Audience: Graduate

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