Social Movements & Education

Social Movements are important contemporary actors influencing both societies and individuals. Social movements are also educational, transforming participants' worldviews and developing innovative pedagogical practices for both non-formal contexts and formal schooling. This course examines the role education plays in social movement struggles in the United States and globally. Students will learn about a diversity of social movements in unique geographical and social contexts and how these movements have centered education into their organizing strategies and social and political goals.