EDD 8856 Collaborative Communities: Innovative Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Environment
Essential to effective schools is attention to the establishment and maintenance of communities that value, understand, and strive for appropriate responses to diversity. Collaborative communities require leaders who embrace multiculturalism in order to create positive social change and who examine their own context with regard to race, sex, religion and cultural ethnicity. By reflecting on one's own experiences, beliefs and roles in the multicultural environment, candidates will explore ways to build positive relationships and communities of learners in a rapidly changing and diverse world and specifically in school environments.