Critical Social Inquiry 0268 - Educ & Internat'l Devel

Education, both within and outside of school settings, can be viewed as a site for imaging and creating ideal citizens, nations, and global orders. From this lens we will explore theories, methods, and practices of inter/national development. Understanding education as indispensible to European colonial and imperial projects, (post)colonial notions of liberation, and 21st century human rights discourses, we will examine educational development in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Guiding questions include- How did Western education, a broadly imperial project by design, cease to be merely colonizing knowledge and find a home among post-colonized populations? What ways of knowing were demonized, delegitimized, and outlawed through these processes? How can understanding education as "internal colonialism" in Native American and Black American communities shed light on the U.S.'s role in blueprinting Apartheid South Africa? Do human rights education and peace education, as currently practiced in the global North and South, provide a framework for deconstructing social inequalities and building more conscionable futures?

Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.