Renewing the Dream Through Multicultural Education Sharing Power, Valuing Culture, and Achieving Social Justice

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Renewing the Dream Through Multicultural
EducationSharing Power, Valuing Culture, and
Achieving Social Justice

• Carrying the TorchA Teacher Education Program
  Moves From
• Multicultural Education To
• Social Justice and Beyond

NAME 2005
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In 2004 CEHD Adopted a Social Justice Approach

• To promote social justice in education through
  research-based theory and practice.
• To ensure that College programs are based on the
  belief that social justice, educational equity,
  and diversity are essential for the continued
  renewal and improvement of education.

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• Mason(1957 2005)
• was established and began to grow in the same
  period as the US Civil Rights Movement

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Honoring Rosa L. Parks 1913 - 2005The Woman Who
Changed A Nation

• "Without vision, the people will perish, and
  without courage and inspiration, dreams will die
  - the dream of freedom and peace."

• On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
  arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a
  public bus to a white man.

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Mason (1957 2005)

• Diversity
• African American 7.6
• Asian American 12.9
• Hispanic American 6.3
• Native American 0.3
• Nonresident Intl 5.6
• White 56.2
• Other 10.8

• History
• 1957 UVAs Northern Virginia branch.
• 1972 becomes an independent university.
• 2005 29,728 students in five campuses.

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College of Education and Human DevelopmentFaculty
-- Fall 2005
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College of Education and Human DevelopmentStudent
s -- Fall 2005
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Social Justice Thinking Transformative Education

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Preliminary ReportA Work In Progress

• How are decisions about
• CEHDs programs and activities being made against
  the background of
• a social justice perspective?