12025 Multiculturalism in Society and in School 1
Credits: 3 graduate credits in Democracy Studies / History, Education and Citizenship or in Education: Technologies and Learning Systems
Prerequisites for Democracy Studies: Democracy: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Israeli Democracy: Selected Issues, Contemporary Democratic Theories; one of the following: Democracy and Democratization, Selected Problems in the History of Western Democracies, Education Policy: Education for Democracy in Democratic Societies, Democracy and Mass Communication,2 Selected Topics in Public Administration;3 and exemption from bibliographic assignments on computer searches in the “Alef” catalog and databases.
Prerequisites for Education: Admission to the graduate program in Education: Technologies and Learning Systems
Author: Hanna Ezer
Objectives: To examine how multiculturalism is viewed in society and in school, and its implications on personal identity and on the linguistic, literacy and social development of students in the educational system in Israel and the world; To become familiar with models of multi-cultural education and how to implement them in the Israeli educational system; To develop students’ multicultural awareness.
Topics: Multiculturalism – basic concepts, viewpoints and development; Multicultural education – viewpoints, models and curricula; Multicultural awareness – developmental model; Language, identity and linguistic policy; Multicultural literacy and critical pedagogy.
1Students may write a seminar paper in this course, although it is not required.
2or Liberalism: Texts, Contexts, Critiques (12005), for students who took it as a required course in the Culture specialization before Spring 2010.
3or Public Policy: Theory to Practice (13037), for students who took it before Fall 2010.