EDLDRS 751 International and Comparative Perspectives on Urban Education

This course engages global and cross-cultural analyses to examine critical issues in urban education within a variety of contexts, and from a number of stakeholder perspectives. Employing various units or levels of analysis, the course pays special attention to different theoretical frameworks used to explain the relationship between education and economic, political, and social development and related policies and the interventions in urban contexts. It also explores the workings of institutions involved in educational reform at the sub-national, national, and international levels.

3 Credit(s)