10307260ECE: Building a Foundation for Understanding Diversity
Course Information
Description
This course will require students to explore the historical context of racism and discrimination, reflect deeply on their own identity, culture, intersectionality and biases, and begin to consider steps they can take toward growth.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Critically consider the history of oppression and prevalence systemic racism throughout US history.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Critically reflect on key concepts presented in texts while making text to self and text to life connections.
    Engage in difficult conversations designed to challenge thinking and inspire action.

  2. Develop deep and personal understanding of the cultural and social identities held by self and others, and how these intersect.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and intersectionality.
    Critically reflect on key concepts presented in texts while making text to self and text to life connections.
    Engage in courageous conversations designed to challenge thinking and inspire action.

  3. Critically consider who holds power, how it is expressed and the systems in place to maintain it.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Critically reflect on key concepts presented in texts while making text to self and text to life connections.
    Engage in difficult conversations designed to challenge thinking and inspire action.

  4. Follow best practices in support of the dignity and personal agency of all people.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Critically reflect on key concepts presented in texts while making text to self and text to life connections.
    Engage in difficult conversations designed to challenge thinking and inspire action.

  5. Develop understanding of and strategies for preventing and addressing practices that hurt people.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Critically reflect on key concepts presented in texts while making text to self and text to life connections.
    Engage in difficult conversations designed to challenge thinking and inspire action.

  6. Move beyond the constraints of privilege and white fragility.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Recognize one's own privileges and how they have benefitted from them.
    Acknowledge the role of opportunity and privilege in what is viewed as success in our society.

  7. Demonstrate ability to critically self-assess own current stage of development identify your current phase of critical self-reflection and create a plan for growth.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Examine the Growth Model toward Cultural Humility.
    Critically self-assess, Cultural Humility AND Cultural Competence seeking to understand personal strengths and gaps.
    Create a plan for personal growth toward applying the Cultural Humility approach.

  8. Adopt principles of Equity Literacy into teaching practices.
    Assessment Strategies
    Discussion, Reflection, and/or Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Checklist
    Required Artifact – Ten Commitments (personalized) - Using the Ten Commitments resource posted, develop your own, personalized list of Ten Commitments to Becoming More Equity Literate. Each commitment must be tied to the concepts learned throughout this course, realistic, observable and measureable over time. Commitments must connect with the PDF - NAEYC Position Statement – Advancing Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education
    Criteria
    Understand and use the academic language related to culture, identity and discrimination.
    Reflect deeply about own journey along the continuum toward becoming equity literate.
    Apply the four abilities related to Equity Literacy to the EC field.
    Make specific commitments to self, children, families and the field to ensure a more equity literate environment for all children and families.