EDUC 369 - Urban Education

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

Prerequisite: EDUC 200, 210, and one additional EDUC or POV course, or permission of the instructor. Students explore pedagogy, curriculum, and social issues related to urban education by working in schools in the Richmond area for four days each week, returning to Lexington on Friday for seminar and discussion. In addition, students attend a seminar each week that rotates among the Richmond schools where students are placed. Although students read about and discuss the broader social and economic forces that have shaped urban schools, the primary focus of the course is on the ramifications of those forces for teachers in the classroom; students concentrate on observing and understanding critical components of teaching and learning in the urban classroom. Housing is provided through alums in Richmond and the students have to be in Richmond Monday through Thursday.Ojure, Sigler