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Cltrl/Linguistic Diversity (EDU 448)

Session: 2013-2014 Term V

Faculty

Cynthia A NahasShow MyInfo popup for Cynthia A Nahas
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Schedule

Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (6/23/2014 - 6/27/2014) Location: 32

Description

In this course pre-service educators and teachers will study how cultural and linguistic diversity are linked and how teachers must be prepared to effectively teach students whose backgrounds are different from their own. Specifically, pre-service educators and teachers will study the following: 1) language, text, and context, 2) teacher ideologies and motivation for change, 3) issues of diversity and literacy learning, 4) out-of-classroom influences on literacy learning, and 5) sociolinguistics. Prerequisites: EDU 110 and admittance to the Teacher Education Program