EDUC 212 Performing Identities and Resistance In Culturally Diverse Education Settings
Schools are a primary social space in which gender ideologies are created, reproduced and resisted. This course examines practices and performances of contemporary masculinities, femininities and gender non-conforming identities across a range of racial, ethnic and culturally different students in public and private school settings. We will focus our exploration on the social constructs of identity performances that generate critique and resistance in students and school personnel as we interrogate the interactions between cultural identities, cultural consciousness and academic achievement. Students will reflect on their own identities and academic histories as consider how to create multicultural school settings that offer safe spaces to support healthy psychosocial development and embrace productive pedagogies for all children.