Program Courses
Maestros Para el Pueblo
Office of Diversity, Recruitment and Retention
As a Maestros student at Western, you will have the opportunity to enroll in a seminar every quarter you remain at Western, for a total of 6 credits:
Fall Quarter
ESJ 397 (1-2 credits)
Winter Quarter
ESJ 397 (1-2 credits)
Spring Quarter
ESJ 397 (1-2 credits)
Goals, Objectives, and Takeaways
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Demonstrate a general understanding of the sociopolitical, economic, historic, and ideological forces that have informed the development of P-12 public schools and the trajectory of access to educational opportunity in the United States.
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Analyze how educational policies and practices (and broader social policies and ideas that impact education) emerge within specific historical moments and theories of change.
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Analyze tensions between expressed values such as democracy, opportunity, and equity and practices related to the distribution of educational resources and pedagogical rituals in the classroom.
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Analyze the multiple contexts that inform and mediate the relationship between students, families, and communities and public schools in the Skagit Valley.
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Explore how educational policies and practices impact students differently based on their structural locations.
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Articulate and effect potential strategies that engage the aims of critical multicultural education, social justice education, and critical pedagogy.
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Develop habits of critical reflection to understand issues from multiple perspectives and in their complexity.
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Consider how methods of collaborative inquiry and dialogue could be employed to build a critical social justice literacy, particularly as it connects to schooling in the Skagit Valley.