ERL 518 Education in a Global Society
This course provides a global, theoretical, and practical review of issues affecting education and literacy development. Candidates deepen their understanding of issues of diversity, policy and equity as they impact theory and practice in literacy, strategies designed to address diversity in the classrooms’s global educational setting and best practices in culturally responsive teaching by examining acquisition of literacy skills, literacy development outside of school, and specific areas for teacher development. This analysis and comparison of educational and literacy development establishes the important commonalities and links needed to provide educators with current and broad-ranging information to develop stronger and more effective literacy programs that are culturally responsive.