AAS 4200 - Critical Pedagogy and African American Education

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141, or AAS 1142, or AAS 2010 with a D or higher.
Description
This course will explore the principles and practices of critical pedagogy theory as it has developed both internationally and in the United States. This theory will be particularly focused on its application in the historical and current education in the African American community. The course will examine applications of critical pedagogy in both primary and higher education arenas with a particular focus on what it means to “teach for freedom. The course will review applications of critical pedagogy and its focus on cultural and social context of both students and teachers and the relationship of education to social development and social change. This course includes both class participation and class room participant observer research..