EDUC 2050 - Human Relations and Multicultural Education

1. Understand the value of diverse K-12 student experiences.
   • Understand that students bring assets for learning based on their individual experiences, abilities, talents, prior learning, and peer and social group interactions, as well as language, culture, family, and community values. (SEP 1- Student Learning, A)
   • Understand how alignment with a student’s cultural background is necessary to make meaningful connections that enable the construction of knowledge and acquisition of skills. (SEP 1- Student Learning, D)
   • Understand how culture influences cognitive processes and how these processes can be stimulated in a cultural frame. (SEP 1- Student Learning, F)
2. Describe methods to develop positive social identities in K-12 students.
   • Understands multiple theories of identity formation and knows how to help students develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society. (SEP 1- Student Learning, B)
3. Explain strategies to address bias and discrimination in K-12 education.
   • Understand how prejudice, discrimination, and racism operate at the interpersonal, intergroup, and institutional levels. (SEP 6- Professional Responsibilities, D)
   • Explore their own intersecting social identities and how they impact daily experience as an educator. (SEP 6- Professional Responsibilities, E)
   • Assesses how their biases, perceptions, and academic training may affect their teaching practice and perpetuate oppressive systems and utilizes tools to mitigate their own behavior to disrupt oppressive systems. (SEP 6- Professional Responsibilities, F)
   • Understand the definitions of and difference between prejudice, discrimination, bias, and racism. (SEP 8B)
4. Analyze racial and ethnic histories.
   • Understand how ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, deficit-based teaching, and white supremacy undermine pedagogical equity. (SEP 8- Racial Consciousness and Reflection, C)
   • Understand the histories and social struggles of historically defined racialized groups, including but not limited to Indigenous people, Black Americans, Latinx Americans, and Asian Americans. (SEP 8- Racial Consciousness and Reflection, E)
   • Understand the cultural content, world view, concepts, and perspectives of Minnesota-based American Indian Tribal Nations and communities, including Indigenous histories and languages. (SEP 8- Racial Consciousness and Reflection, F)
5. Evaluate cultural influences on learning.
   • Understand that knowledge creation, ways of knowing, and teaching are social and cultural practices shaped by race and ethnicity, often resulting in racially disparate advantages and disadvantages. (SEP 8- Racial Consciousness and Reflection, D)
6. Evaluate intersectionality in education.
   • Understand multiple theories of race and ethnicity, including but not limited to racial formation, processes of racialization, and intersectionality. (SEP 8- Racial Consciousness and Reflection, A)
   • Understand the impact of the intersection of race and ethnicity with other forms of difference, including class, gender, sexuality, religion, national origin, immigration status, language, ability, and age. (SEP 8- Racial Consciousness and Reflection, G)

1. Introduction to multicultural education
2. Diversity of student experiences
3. Identity formation in K-12 students
4. Bias, discrimination, and racism in education
5. Racial and ethnic histories
6. Cultural influences on learning
7. Intersectionality and its impacts on education
8. Culturally responsive teaching practices