Confronting Oppression in Education

This course introduces graduate students, in Social Justice Education (SJE) and other programs of study inside and outside the College of Education, to overall concepts of SJE as well as awareness and knowledge about several specific manifestations of systemic, institutional, interpersonal forms of oppression within systems of advantage based on social group categories such as age, race, ability, and gender. The course also examines some of the ways people and social groups have confronted, resisted, and continue to resist and challenge oppression individually and collectively. As an introduction to further study of SJE for students whose course concentration is within SJE ? or as a way of providing introductory knowledge and awareness of SJE for students in other graduate concentrations ? this course draws upon critical, humanistic, and experiential pedagogies which require active learning and engagement among participants alongside critical dialogue and self- reflection.