C I 2250 - Education as the Practice of Freedom (3)

When Offered: Fall; Summer Session
GEN ED: Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “Critical Consciousness: Learning for Equity and Justice”)
In the public imagination, education is often reduced to teaching and schooling, while educators, politicians and philosophers for centuries have linked education with personal and political freedom. Engaging directly with this tension, this course will explore educational traditions that have focused on emancipation, social justice, and equity. Students will reflect on their own educative experiences and explore approaches to education that recognize individual experiences as being central to meaningful learning. In particular, the course will consider how aspects of identity like race, class, gender, ability, and sexual orientation intersect with education and the realization of freedom.