Description
Prerequisites: None
3 cr. hrs. (3 pds: 3 lec.)
Programs: AAS-CDA, AAS-ECE, CRT-ECE
GenEd: None
Examination of diversity: age, class, gender, race, disabilities, sexual orientation, and culture effect on the K-12 classroom. Exploration of diversity in education; demographic changes and effects on education; diversity and multicultural philosophies and perspectives and approaches for helping students communicate. Also, analysis of prejudice, single-group studies, multicultural education, human relations and capital. Explores children?s school achievement in light of learning and teaching styles and reconstructionist approach to classroom diversity and curriculum planning. This class requires a 10-hour field-work experience.