Mar 28, 2024  
2018-19 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-19 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IP 507 Foundations of Peace Education


The target audience for this course includes teachers who are already teaching or hope to teach in the U.S. public school or private school system. This course is fully online and asynchronous in order to support the needs of the working professional. Five units including audio lectures, course readings and writing assignments are easily accessed via Blackboard. Course covers the historical, cultural and political influences of U.S. based public education and examines the role of the federal, state, and local governments in educational policy, funding, assessment standards, and curriculum and instruction. Additionally, it assists students in developing a rationale for building and implementing multicultural curricula and develop strategies for deconstructing institutional and instructional barriers of multicultural and peace education.