SOC 3130 Justice in Education
Applied to America's system of schooling, justice as an ideal has inspired a meritocratic system, and justice as a goal has offered up education as "the great equalizer." Yet these related pursuits have, arguably, proven illusory. Sociologists, educators, students, and other concerned citizens continue to tweak our existing systems, to correct for past disadvantages, to achieve new notions of justice. Through lectures, readings, fieldtrips, and service-learning, this course follows developments in education, with an eye on what are our ideals, and what it means to fail at achieving them.
Offered
Fall