Education is viewed as a powerful resource to mitigate inequality and inequity. But the institution of education has historically exacerbated social inequality through discriminatory practices involving class, race, gender, language, disability, and sexuality.
The Educational Studies minor encourages students to better understand, reflect on, and learn how they might help improve public education’s role in academic and civic preparation.
- Explore key questions about the purposes of education including its goals to academically prepare and enable them to participate in civic life in a diverse democracy.
- Gain interdisciplinary tools for analyzing education as an institution.
- Learn how education is connected to hopes for academic, social, and political inclusion while exploring the complex shifts, reforms, and continued struggles over education’s purposes and approaches to educational access.
- Discover how the aims and purposes of education have evolved over time and in different contexts. Learn why including why these struggles occurred, and how values and disputes over education continue to shape the course of educational experiences and civic life in our society.
Requirements
| Requirement Description | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| EDFS 1010 | Race and Racism in the U.S. | 3 |
| EDFS 1020 | School and Society | 0 or 3 |
| EDFS 3030 | Soc, Hst & Phil Found of Educ | 3 |
| EDML 3220 | Social Justice Education | 3 |
| EDSP 3250 | Culture of Disability | 3 |
Restrictions
The Education Studies Minor is available to all UVM students, excluding students in educator preparation programs.