Negotiating Learner Differences Towards Productive Diversity in Learning
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The Syllabus
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- Overview
- Course Introduction
- Learner Identities
- Human Movement
- Nation Building and the Dynamics of Diversity
- Productive Diversity
- Meeting the Challenge of the New Xenophobia
Readings
- Syllabus
- Task Overview: How to Pass This Course
- About the Discussion Forums
- Take this Course as a Stepping Stone for a University of Illinois Certificate, Masters, or Doctorate - Fully Online!
- Updating Your Profile
- Social Media
Practice Exercise
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- Preconceptions that Students and Teachers Bring to the School
- Changing US Demographics
- Challenges Moving Forward
- Social and Educational Benefits of Diversity
- Segregation: A Persisting Concern
- Desegregation vs Intergration
- Patterns of Desegregation
- Processes of Resegregation
- School Segregation and Educational Opportunities
- Segregation, Teacher Quality, Test Results and Social Mobility
- Introduction to the Issues of Learner Differences
- Categorical Differences
- Negotiating Categorical Differences
- Differences in Practice: the Roma Example
- Problems with the Categories of Difference
- Lifeworld Differences
Reading
- Readings on differences teachers and learners encounter
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- School in Colonial Virginia
- The School in Colonial Massachusetts
- The School in Colonial North and South Carolina
- Thomas Jefferson and Schools After the American Revolution
- Benjamin Rush and Noah Webster on the Role of Schools in Society
- First Federal Initiatives in Public Education
- Chronology of Public Schooling in the US
- Historical Exclusions to Citizenship
- Arguing for Public Schooling and Social Equality
- Framing Asian Americans
- The Japanese-American Internment Experience
- The Model Minority Myth
- Supporting Academic Achievement
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- Postcolonial Theory: A Personal View
- Rethinking Center/Periphery
- Postcolonial Aesthetics in Theory
- Practices of Postcolonial Aesthetics (1)
- Practices of Postcolonial Aesthetics (2)
- Educational Implications of Postcolonialism
- The Responsibilities of Educators
- The Inclusive School
Reading
- Inclusive Education - Further resources
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