Language, Culture, and Education

Course Code

EDSO 23007 91

Cross Listed Course Code(s)

CHDV 23007, CHST 23007, ANTH 27215, SOCI 20538

Course Description

In this course, we examine past and current theories and research about differential educational achievement in US schools, including: - Theories that focus on the characteristics of people (e.g., their psychological characteristics, their internal traits, their essential qualities); - Theories that focus on the characteristics of groups and settings, (e. g., ethnic group culture, language, school culture); and - Theories that examine how cultural processes mediate political-economic constraints and human action. Course discussion will focus on understanding the ways in which language and/or culture are conceptualized in these theories and their educational consequences, especially for racialized students from historically marginalized communities in the US.

Instructor(s)

Lisa Rosen

¹ UChicago students can self-register.

² Visiting students and pre-college students apply through the same application.