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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY?

SUMMER SEMESTER 2008

EDUC 382-4

ISSUES IN DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION

(D100)

Ainesh Prasad

email: prasad@alumni.sfu.ca

Friday 8:30-12:20 pm

Surrey Campus room 5080

Prerequisite/corequisite: 60 hours of credit. Students who have received credit for EDUC 441,

EDUC 382-4 Special Topics from fall 2003-3 on, cannot take EDUC 382 for further credit.

Description: This course provides students with a broad overview of the impact of social diversity on

education. This course will explore a range of diversity topics—including cultural, ethnic, racial, gender,

socio-economic, and sexual identity differences—in an effort to conceptualize the problematic

trajectories through which diversity manifests in the educational system. Finally, the course will

consider, through a critical lens, how best to accommodate diversity within the current socio-political

environment.

Grading:

Term paper: 30%

Reflections journal:

25%

Take-home exam:

25%

Attendance and participation: 20%

Required texts:

Maurianne Adams et al. (Eds.), Readings in diversity and social justice. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Roxana Ng, Pat Staton & Joyce Scane (Eds.), Anti-racism,

feminism, and critical approaches to education. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Press,

1995.

Recommended texts:

Gail M. Jardine. Foucault and education. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

bell hooks. Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.

(Recommended books will be put on reserve for students to photocopy relevant chapters from)

Materials/supplies: ?

None.

Notes: All students are expected to

read

and understand SFIJ' s policies with regard to academic

dishonesty

(T 10.02 and T 10.03). These policies are available at the following web addresses:

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