Culture and Education
Overview
Subject area
EECE
Catalog Number
776
Course Title
Culture and Education
Department(s)
Description
Elective course in the Family and Community Studies Specialty. Deals with the interrelationship between culture and the educational process. Explores how schools are organized as cultural agencies and how culture organizes the activity in schools. Not limited to mainstream U.S. schools. Also looks at cases from other societies in the interest of new perspectives. Gives particular attention to the nature and uses of ethnography for teacher-researchers. Develops strategies to work successfully with the myriad of cultures in New York schools.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Graduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3