Education 3263 - Diversity & Inclusion - Villanova University

Faculty:
Dr.  Jerusha Conner,

Course Description and Objectives
American cities and their institutions are rapidly becoming more and more diverse. In cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco, students of color make up half or more of the public school students. In Philadelphia, Black or African-American children and youth now comprise the majority of the population under the age of 18, while the number of children and youth of Hispanic origin is also on the rise. Whether they teach in the inner-city or the suburbs, teachers are more likely to have students of different ethnic, racial, and language groups in their classrooms. An important pedagogical objective for these teachers is to ensure that all their students have access to academically challenging curricula and intellectually rich learning experiences; however, in many American schools students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds remain barred from high quality educational opportunities.