EDN 605 - Teacher and Teaching Identities

All educators require an understanding of themselves if they are to be fully present with and for their students. This course is designed to ensure that teacher candidates recognize and understand their own cultural identities, and more importantly, how they affect pedagogical decision-making, both implicitly and explicitly. Engaging in Freire’s notion of praxis, we utilize Critical Whiteness, Critical Race Theory, and Social Identity Theory to unpack the origin and enactment of our multicultural dispositions, noting how teachers’ and students’ cultural identities intersect in educational settings.

(Cr: 3