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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2421yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • 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
  • Orientation Quiz

Videos
  • 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

Videos
  • 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

Videos
  • 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

Instructors

Articles

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