Tuesdays 12:40-3:30 PM
Instructor: Dr. Alyssa Hadley Dunn
This course explores the various incantations of education “reform”
over the past several decades, including competing definitions of
“reform,” disparate political ideologies that intersect with debates
about schooling, and the effects of these reforms on urban schools and
communities. At the heart of this course is an exploration of what
educational politics and reform have, do, and may continue to look like
in urban communities. In particular, we will investigate social, political,
curricular, pedagogical, and financial reforms that have been
implemented in major metropolitan areas, as well as spaces of
possibilities for different types of “reform” generated from community
organizing and youth-led efforts. Our discussions will be grounded in
the understanding that urban schools are places of promise and
possibility and that we can and should work toward dismantling
injustice, inequity, racism, White supremacy, economic
disenfranchisement, and other systems of oppression in these spaces.
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