Education (EDUC)

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
The Freshman and Sophomore Seminar program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Limited to 15 freshmen.
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2009, Fall 2005
Racial and ethnic minorities in American schools and colleges through case studies of Native Americans, Italian Americans, and Mexican Americans. Policies, practices, ideologies, experiences, and outcomes from the perspective of both the dominant and minority groups.
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Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 1998 10 Week Session, Fall 1997
What is access? In this course, students will refine their definition of educational access and learn about the paradigm of universal design, a set of principles originally developed to ensure that the built environment was accessible to all. Universal design has expanded to apply to learning contexts. Educators, in addition to applying universal design to tangible aspects of the learning environment, are also applying it to intangible elements (curriculum, teaching philosophy and practices, etc.) in order to create barrier-free learning environments that serve diverse student populations. Students will analyze the elements that allow for all students to have fair and equal participation in educational settings.
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Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session
How do undergraduates thrive in a research university? This course provides a multi-disciplinary framework for students to interrogate and analyze their educational experiences, including the structures, paradigms, and schooling practices that help shape those experiences. Students will also "read the research university" in order to understand the historical, social, cultural, and economic factors that have created and shaped UC Berkeley. Through this course, students will develop academic frameworks that will inform their learning processes and hone strategies to navigate and thrive in the university.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Reading the Research University: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2009
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting.
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Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2020, Spring 2018
The goal of equality has long dominated social and political discourse in the United States. This goal has struggled alongside our nation’s professed commitment to diversity – diversity of race, ethnicity, class, language, culture, ability, and religion (among many others). Public schools are arguably the primary arena within which efforts to nurture equality and diversity have been focused and challenged. The schools, and the myriad educational contexts beyond them, play a central role in the organization of inequality. At the same time, they also offer the potential for increased opportunity and equity.
From Macro to Micro: Experiencing Education (In)equality in and beyond Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2011 Second 6 Week Session
Racial and ethnic minorities in American schools and colleges through case studies of African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and selected Asian American groups. Policies, practices, ideologies, experiences, and outcomes will be analyzed and compared.
Experiencing Education: Race and Ethnicity Inside Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012
This course explores how language is influenced by social factors. The topics include dialects and standard English, slang, and the influence of gender, identity, and bilingualism on language use, highlighting the diverse ways in which people use language to communicate with one another. A secondary objective is to teach strategies that are proven effective for successful and efficient reading, writing, learning, and studying. These strategies will be applied to the content of this class and be useful in students' other classes.
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Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This course will explore how speaking, reading and writing are influenced by social and cultural factors. The topics include dialects, Standard English, and slang; the influence of identity on language use; and the dynamic and diverse ways in which people use language to communicate with one another and in their communities. The course will begin by exploring how people communicate within the university, or academic discourse, and how this impacts academic achievement. Thus, a secondary objective is to examine literate strategies and practices of being a student that lead to higher academic achievement.
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Terms offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
This Summer Study Abroad course examines the ways in which modern sports provide a potential vehicle for social integration and mobility, as well as the construction of a national identity. Sports likewise provide a means of expressing unique cultural affiliations and identities in parallel with, and at times in opposition to, national pastimes and dominant sporting practices. In particular, the course explores Irish and American cultural history, as well as the Irish-American diaspora.
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Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
American sports and athletes have come to signify a complex of variegated meanings that include desire, but also disdain. Through the work of a variety of scholars, researchers, and journalists, this course explores the nature and motives of societal structures and practices (embodied in both institutions and individuals) to illuminate the intersections and reciprocal influences of society and sports. The central framework of this course draws on the notion that the space of sports is defined by highly structured societal practices and consumptions. By critically analyzing a variety of these practices, this course attempts to ground a partial reading of other societal forces in American culture. In particular, the course examines the nuanced intersections of sport, race, ethnicity, social class and gender, highlighting the ways in which American sports provide a potential vehicle for social mobility and integration while simultaneously reproducing existing cultural stereotypes and structures of inequality.
American Sports, Culture, and Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
University organized and supervised field programs involving experiences in schools and school-related activities.
Field Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022

Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2016
Supervised independent study or research on topics relevant to Education that are not covered in depth by other courses. Topics to be initiated by students.
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Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
The course introduces students to relationships between research on cognitive development and reforms in elementary teaching. The syllabus is organized in modules that link research and classroom practice. For example, in a module on children's mathematics, we analyze research on children's strategies for solving math problems and consider how this research has reformed teaching practices. Students complete a project for each module that links research and observations in elementary classrooms through concurrent enrollment in one unit of 197.
Reforms in Elementary Education: Psychological and Sociocultural Foundations: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
Theory and research on early childhood education and psychological development in early childhood. Directed field observation of developmental phenomena and educational practices.
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Terms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008
This course will provide students with an understanding of theories and practices in early care and education, specifically focused on children from infancy to age 5. It will also provide an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and reflect upon experiences teaching in a high-quality environment for young children. Course topics will span infant, toddler, and preschool early care and education programs and the age groups for whom such programs are designed. Special attention will be given to 1) curriculum approaches and theories in early care and education programs, 2) educational practices related to culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse student populations, and 3) child observation and classroom organization and practices. In addition, the course will cover changing expectations for children and their teachers, programming for children with special needs, teacher relations with children, parents and other staff, peer relationships, managing challenging child behaviors and identifying quality. Field experience will include working with young children in an infant, toddler or preschool quality program on the UC Berkeley campus or in the surrounding area.
Practicum in Early Development and Education, Children Birth to Age 5: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Students undertake several in-depth research projects to develop methods for engaging in authentic research in the science or mathematics content area related to their major. Interactive lectures and labs are designed to meet the needs of future teachers by practicing specific techniques--including statistics, mathematical modeling, and scientific writing--needed to address scientific questions so that they may guide their future K-12 students to develop skills in problem solving and research.
Research Methods for Science and Mathematics K-12 Teachers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session
This course offers a sequence of collaborative problem-solving and reflection activities through which students will be able to appreciate and develop a coherent, effective approach to the teaching and learning of any mathematical or scientific conceptual domain. Issues of cognition, culture, and pedagogy will emerge from participants' struggles to explain their own reasoning. In-class problem solving experiences will provide grist for reflection. Extensive readings are discussed in a bSpace forum. Students are placed in, and do course projects in, local classrooms.
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Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
This course continues the process of preparing students to teach science and mathematics in secondary schools by providing opportunities to evaluate challenges they face in instructional settings. We will explore frameworks for thinking abut equity issues in the classroom and beyond school settings, learn strategies for teaching students of diverse backgrounds, and consider how classroom interactions enable students to develop a deep conceptual understanding of the subject matter.
Classroom Interactions in Science and Mathematics: A Focus on Equity and Urban Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course continues the process of preparing students to teach science and mathematics in secondary schools by providing opportunities to evaluate challenges they face in instructional settings. We will explore frameworks for thinking abut equity issues in the classroom and beyond school settings, learn strategies for teaching students of diverse backgrounds, and consider how classroom interactions enable students to develop a deep conceptual understanding of the subject matter.
Classroom Interactions in Science and Mathematics: A Focus on Equity and Urban Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
In this course, we will examine research from bilingual education, sociocultural language and literacy studies, educational anthropology, ethnic studies in education, and policy research in addition to reading/viewing/listening to literature, art and music to investigate the rich and diverse translingual practices of individuals from Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x communities.
Language Learning in Chicanx/Latinx Communities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Drawing from both historical and contemporary sociocultural theories on literacy and language as well as recent research from education and new media scholars, we will explore an array of digital and non-digital forms of meaning-making and symbolic creativity, such as meme-generating, video making, micro-blogging, multi-player gaming, and app designing, as well as more traditional and non-digital or pre-digital forms of cultural participation and civic engagement.
The Art of Making Meaning: Educational Perspectives on Literacy and Learning in a Global World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 Second 6 Week Session
This course combines theory and practice in the study of literacy and development, while simultaneously introducing students to socio-cultural educational theory and research. This research perspicaciously and critically analyzes extant literature on literacy teaching and learning. This literature will be examined in practice through participation in tutoring and technology-oriented summer programs. In addition, this course satisfies the American Cultures requirement and will contribute to understanding of race, cultures, and ethnicity in the United States. We will develop a view of literacy, not as a neutral skill, but as embedded within culture and as depending for its meaning and its practice upon social institutions and conditions. In addition to lecture, students are to participate in field work hours.
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Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course combines theory and practice in the study of literacy and development. It will introduce sociocultural educational theory and research focused especially on literacy teaching and learning, and this literature will be examined in practice through participation in after-school programs. In addition, the course will contribute to an understanding of how literacy is reflected in race, culture, and ethnicity in the United States and how these symbolic systems shift in a digital world.
The Art of Making Meaning: Educational Perspectives on Literacy and Learning in a Global World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session
This course combines theory and practice in the study of literacy and development. It will introduce sociocultural educational theory and research focused especially on literacy teaching and learning, and this literature will be examined in practice through participation in after-school programs. In addition, the course will contribute to an understanding of how literacy is reflected in race, culture, and ethnicity in the United States and how these symbolic systems shift in a digital world.
The Art of Making Meaning: Educational Perspectives on Literacy and Learning in a Global World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Spring 2023
Over the past decade, online education and classroom-based education have begun to converge in the form of digital pedagogy. What does this mean for the role of the instructor, how a student learns, the design of a learning experience, the structure of education and the impact on society overall? This course provides the opportunity to explore issues that are impacting 21st century education and pedagogy due to the disruptive force of technology.
Exploring Digital Pedagogy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013
What is globalization? What are the implications of living in a "global world" for education? How can education be used as a tool to promote global social justice and prosperity? In this course, we will address these and other related questions through collective reading assignments, class discussions, and online collaboration through our learning platform (bSpace or other).
Education in a Global World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2024, Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2021
What is globalization? What are the implications of living in a "global world" for education? How can education be used as a tool to promote global social justice and prosperity? In this course, we will address these and other related questions through collective reading assignments, class discussions, and online collaboration through our learning platform (bSpace or other).
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Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Exploration of issues confronting English and English language arts teachers today; curriculum trends and teaching practices; influence or reform efforts since the 1950s on English and language arts curriculum and practice; course assignments to include field work, interviews, reading and reports.
Introduction to the Teaching of English: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session
The course serves the ED Minor mission of developing students’ critical habits of mind and reflection in educational research and practice. The course develops student awareness of their role as participant/observer, increases their understanding of ethical issues, and their ability to articulate these issues. Topics shape a productive field experience for the student and presume that different students’ experiences in may be variable, encompassing different sites with different activities.
Practicum in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2002
Exploration of the role that literature can play in the acquisition of literacy in a first and second language. Linguistic and psycholinguistic issues: orality and literacy, discourse text, schema theory, and reading research. Literary issues: stylistics and critical reading, reader response, structure of narratives. Educational issues: the literary text in the social context of its production and reception by intended and non-intended readers.
Literacy through Literature: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 10 Week Session
Course addresses complex issues influencing the social experiences of indigenous immigrant youth and their families in the Maya Diaspora (Yucatan-SF). The course introduces contextual background (historical, political, economic, social) to the creation of Maya indigeneity and representation in Yucatan and in the US. It will also address pan-maya social movements that have tried to redefine cultural and linguistic identities.
Education and Migration: Indigeneity in Yucatan and Its Diaspora: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of international development education. Through the use of lectures, discussions, and multimedia presentations, students will examine three core themes: 1) the purpose of education; 2) how contemporary development policy conceptualizes education; 3) education as a tool for social transformation. To the extent possible, the course draws connections between theory and practical case studies of international education programs, policy statements, and initiatives.
Education and International Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course is an advanced undergraduate seminar in current issues and topics in education. Course will focus on specific issues or research methods in the multidisciplinary field of education. A major research project is required as well as class presentation. Topics change each semester.
Advanced Studies in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The course will trace the genealogy of educational curriculum reform movements and draw parallels to how students with disabilities have been excluded from physical, social, and sports opportunities within educational spaces historically. Particular focus will be placed on the student body at the intersection of sport and school, analyzing the historical and controversial relationship between athletics and American educational institutions. A critical component of the course requires students to participate in an engaged scholarship experience with our local non-profit partners. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on readings and engaged scholarship experiences through regular course assignments.

Education, the Student Body, and Disability: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session
The goal of the Research in Education is to introduce students to educational research and the methods and frameworks used to examine key educational topics related to educational inequity and educational possibility. Students also will develop robust understandings of relevant theories and methods by engaging with research focused around the set of core topics. In this way, students will become ‘re-searchers’ of enduring educational issues.
Research in Education: Studying Educational Inequality and Possibility: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
A nuanced understanding of how language reveals and conceals realities of the world is an important asset for any educational enterprise that aims toward a critical and transformative engagement with the world. This course focuses on the relationship between language and the world: language inhabits the world that language itself contributes to shaping.
Language in/and the World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022
Through a place-based and community-engaged research approach, we examine the social construction and contestation of race, the historical and contemporary consequences of racism, and the ongoing struggle for racial justice in the United States through the lens of Asian American racialization.
Asian American Struggles and Collective Learning for Racial Justice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015
Digital learning environments are taking residence in the educational experience of many, from replacing components of traditional classroom instruction to providing open platforms for lifelong learning. In this class we will study the various forms and functions of a sampling of digital learning environments ranging from subject specific Intelligent Tutoring Systems in K-12 to domain neutral systems for post-secondary online learning.
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Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Digital learning environments are taking residence in the educational experience of many, from replacing components of traditional classroom instruction to providing open platforms for lifelong learning. In this class we will study the various forms and functions of a sampling of digital learning environments ranging from subject specific Intelligent Tutoring Systems in K-12 to domain neutral systems for post-secondary online learning.
Digital Learning Environments: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
This course is offered as part of the undergraduate education minor, examines the multiple dimensions of teachers' work by drawing on theories of teacher socialization and teacher professional learning, and exploring representations of teachers in the media and popular culture, as well as in relevant academic literature. Students will be introduced to the current policy, social, cultural, historical, professional, employment and legal context of teachers' professional lives in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to examine these aspects of teachers' work by interacting with teachers in the field.
Teachers' Work: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session
This course surveys the major events, as well as broader social, political, and economic forces, that have coalesced to shape U.S. public schools today and the contemporary reforms that policy makers have designed to improve them. We accomplish this by exploring the scholarship on the roots of educational inequality, the history of school reform, and the most prominent reforms that are present in American schools today. We engage with primary research, historical artifacts, advocacy documents, and guest speakers who represent a range of ideological and political perspectives.
Contemporary Issues in U.S. Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
This course examines how, when and why government intervenes in children’s lives, through family, pre-/school, community, and digital media contexts, aiming to improve their trajectories. From this basis, we examine how the effects of policies on children locally, nationally, and internationally.
Drawing from a variety of case studies and empirical research, students will gain a deep understanding of policy goals, development, implementation, and implications. After gaining familiarity with early childhood policies, students will develop their own policy at the family, pre-/school, community, or digital media level.

Early Childhood Policy - Children, Contexts, and Politics in Diverse Societies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Explores diverse ways in which young children are raised across cultural and social-class groups, and implications for early interventions, preschooling, and public schools.
Early Learning Environments for Diverse Learners: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020
This course is for students interested in STEM education (especially K-12). We explore the promises of STEM of learning in national rhetoric, research, and student accounts. By understanding the productive tensions of STEM as a mechanism for racial and economic justice, we wrangle questions about the purpose of STEM education and how it intersects with issues of dignity and personhood in racially minoritized communities.
Will STEM Save US? The Promises and Perils of STEM Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
Colleges and universities face numerous challenges today - from both the demand, or student and family perspective, and the supply, or institutional viewpoint. This course will utilize frameworks and theories from economics to better understand the costs, benefits, and incentives colleges and students face.

Higher Education Policy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The aim of this course is to discuss and debate important issues that arise regarding educational testing, focusing on the US context, but including international perspectives as well. In order to give the students a practical experience regarding these issues, each student will participate in a group exercise to develop their own measurement instrument. Thus this course has two parts: (a) to give students exposure to the important contemporary issues in educational testing in the USA; and (b) to give students a chance to experience how tests and other instruments are developed.
Educational Testing in the USA: Issues and Practical Experience: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021
A workshop-style course focused on teaching and learning of the computational and data sciences (CDS) in K-12. Students will explore the intersections of pedagogy, equity, and learning in CDS by engaging with major contemporary curricula and tools (e.g. Beauty and Joy of Computing; CS Fundamentals; Mobilize Data Science; Scratch; Code.org; CODAP), analyzing local and immediate tensions between the tech industry and youth CDS initiatives, and designing their own novel curricular activities and intervention.
K12 Computer and Data Science Education: Design, Research, and Evaluation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
An analysis of the logical and epistemological foundations of empirical research with the aim of developing a critical and vigorous approach to empirical inquiry, deductive and inductive logic, the structure of scientific theories, justification, falsification, the role of values, prediction and the nature of causality.
Logic of Inquiry: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
This course will focus on understanding urban schools as a part of a broader system of social stratification and the process by which students in urban schools come to a sense of themselves as students, as members of cultural and racial groups, and as young people in America. Topics include racial identity; race/ethnicity in schools; urban neighborhood contexts; and schooling in the juvenile justice system. Students will also integrate course readings with their own first-hand experience working in one of several off-campus sites. This course has a mandatory community engagement component for which students will earn 1 unit of field study (197) credit.
What is the Role of Race in Urban Schools?: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2019
This course explores the state of U.S. public education, particularly how success within that system varies by race, class, and gender. It explores educational attainment across different groups within the U.S. and then looks at how the structure of educational policymaking affects different types of students. It concludes by investigating the varied impact of different approaches to reform, with an eye toward identifying how best to reduce educational inequality in the United States.
The Politics of Educational Inequality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
High school plays a pivotal role in American life. It both serves as a gatekeeper of educational and economic success and embodies hopes of transcending social divisions. Like high school itself, movies about it have fostered youth culture and helped Americans make sense of the intersection of democratic aspirations and social divisions. This course examines how the reality and representation of high schools combine to reflect and define American society and the lives of American youth.
High School, The Movie: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Systematic survey of educational thought with emphasis on the epistemological, logical and ethical foundations of the major philosophies of education.
Philosophical Foundations of Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
This course is designed to provide an overview of the major discussions and debates in the area of gender and education, from a global perspective. Examines theoretical understandings of gender, and the intersection of gender, schooling, global poverty, and social justice. Explores strategies to "undo" gender, including the role of international donor agencies, the state, NGOs, popular education, the media, sport, and innovative curricula.
Gender and Education: International Perspectives: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
The southern border--from California to Florida--is the longest physical divide between the First and Third Worlds. This course will examine the border as a distinct landscape where North-South relations take on a specific spatial and cultural dimension, and as a region which has been the testing ground for such issues as free trade, immigration, and ethnic politics.
The Southern Border: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
As the United States becomes more ethnoracially diverse, calls from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to recruit, support, and retain teachers of color have become commonplace in educational discourse for addressing teacher quality and student achievement. These calls highlighting the importance of diversifying the ethnoracial composition of the teacher workforce are based on a growing body of evidence of the added value of teachers of color.
Teachers of Color in the United States: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2020
The course engages a selection of themes examining the academic achievement of Latinas/os in K-12 and in higher education. The course aims to foster an awareness of the complex issues influencing the education of Latinas/os and of ways to work towards supporting and advancing the educational experiences of Latinas/os in schools and society.
Latinas/os and Education: Critical Issues and Perspectives: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
The course aims to foster an awareness of the complex issues influencing the education of Native people and of ways to productively work towards supporting and advancing the educational experiences of Native Americans in schools and beyond. This course critically examines themes that are central to understanding the academic achievement and attainment of Native Americans in K-12 and higher education.
Native American Education: Critical Issues and Possibilities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
This course is designed to critically examine the intersection of language, race, and power in education. Through dialogue, readings, research, and critical analysis the course aims to foster awareness of the ways in which seemingly neutral education processes are inherently embedded in power dynamics around language use. Participants will discuss the purposes of education, the ways schooling and education are related to other societal structures, and the potential of education to productively address inequalities, especially as they impact students of historically racialized group (e.g, Latino/a, African-American, Native American, and Asian).
Language, Race, and Power in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010
Education as a vehicle for furthering the ideals of democratic societies--critical study of principles, philosophies, theories, and practices designed to develop understanding, commitment, and skills to empower a citizenry dedicated to achieving equality, justice, and peace in the world.
Democracy and Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
This course examines how learning environments can empower and disempower individuals and explores the role of education in the social construction of hierarchy, inequality, difference, identity, and power. It embodies a democratic philosophy and practice, creating a learning community that encourages students to take responsibility for their own education and learn through theory, experience, and dialogue. All students must engage in a community project.
Critical Studies in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
This course examines how learning environments can empower and disempower individuals and explores the role of education in the social construction of hierarchy, inequality, difference, identity, and power. It embodies a democratic philosophy and practice, creating a learning community that encourages students to take responsibility for their own education and learn through theory, experience, and dialogue. All students must engage in a community project. Course satisfies the American Cultures breadth requirement.
Critical Studies in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
This course examines how learning environments can empower and disempower individuals and explores the role of education in the social construction of hierarchy, inequality, difference, identity, and power. It embodies a democratic philosophy and practice, creating a learning community that encourages students to take responsibility for their own education and learn through theory, experience, and dialogue.
Critical Studies in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 8 Week Session
This course examines how learning environments can empower and disempower individuals and explores the role of education in the social construction of hierarchy, inequality, difference, identity, and power. It embodies a democratic philosophy and practice, creating a learning community that encourages students to take responsibility for their own education and learn through theory, experience, and dialogue.
Critical Studies in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course examines how learning environments can empower and disempower individuals and explores the role of education in the social construction of hierarchy, inequality, difference, identity, and power. It embodies a democratic philosophy and practice, creating a learning community that encourages students to take responsibility for their own education and learn through theory, experience, dialogue, and a capstone course project titled: the Digital Changemaker Project.
Berkeley Changemaker: Critical Studies in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 1999
This course will examine the role of gender in education and the influences on classroom discourse, curriculum, and teaching and learning styles. We will also look at current trends in school reform, how schools and alternative programs address issues of gender bias. This course will provide on opportunity to consider the experiences of students and teachers as "gendered" beings in the educational system.
Gender Issues in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
Theory and practice of translating ecological knowledge, environmental issues, and values into educational forms for all age levels and all facets of society, including schools. Concentrated experience in participatory education.
Environmental Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Reading and language arts.
Special Topics in the Foundations of Teaching: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
Mathematics and science.
Special Topics in the Foundations of Teaching: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
University organized and supervised field programs involving experiences in schools and school-related activities.
Field Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
University organized and supervised field programs involving experiences in schools and school-related activities.
Field Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Group discussion, research, and reporting on selected topics. Student initiation in choice of subjects is solicited and welcomed.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2016

Supervised Independent Study and Research for Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
The seminar explores Piaget's and Vygotsky's seminal frameworks for the analysis of cognitive development and recent extensions of their work. A focus will be on culture and its representation in treatments of cognition.
Culture and Cognitive Development: Theoretical Perspectives: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
An examination of theory and research on social development from childhood to early adulthood. Review of different theoretical orientations to social cognition, morality, psychosexual development, and the role of social-environmental factors.
Social Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
This course explores advanced topic in Piaget's and Vygotsky's frameworkers for the analysis of cognition development. Of particular concern is the representation of cultural processes in each treatment. Reading will include primary sources from these authors and contemporary writers who extend and critique the treatment of culture in each.
Culture and Cognitive Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
This course is a doctoral seminar in developmental psychology, with a broad focus on psychosocial development and its impact on children in educational contexts. The course begins with a discussion of Erikson's psychosocial theory and the sociocultural perspectives of Vygotsky and other theorists. We then review some of the major psychosocial variables related to educational achievement, including competence, motivation, self-concept, self-efficacy, self-regulation, and volition. We touch briefly on moral development and values as psychosocial factors affecting correlates. We examine (a) how social and personal identity factors are used to explain underachievement (e.g., cultural ecological theory and stereotype threat), (b) the role of identity in different cultural groups, (c) the impact of these factors on teacher and student behavior, and (d) the role that identity plays in helping students develop a sense of future.
Psychosocial Development: Identity, Culture, and Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This seminar explores interpretations, extensions, and reformulations of Vygotsky's writings on cognitive development. The seminar will consider Vygotsky's books, Thought and Language and Mind in Society, and also read scholars who build on Vygotsky's seminal ideas--these including his students, like Luria and Leontiev, as well as contemporary writers. A focus throughout the seminar will be on activity-oriented treatments of cognition that incorporate social and historical processes.
Cognitive Development: Neo Vygotskian Approaches: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020
This course delves into what it means to be an Asian American educator and professional. Through readings, analysis of popular media, and critical collective self-reflection, participants will explore how Asian Americans might understand and engage with their own racialization and the purpose and nature of their work as educators and professionals, particularly in solidarity with other people of color and low-income and working.
Asian American Educators and Professionals in a Stratified Multiracial Society: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2011
Comparison and analysis of the psychological and linguistic evidence underlying whole language and skills methods of reading instruction. Topics include reading readiness, emergent literacy, the English spelling system and decoding, vocabulary development, models of reading, individual differences, and comprehension and schema theory.
Psychology of Reading: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Intensive examination of advanced topics, which will vary from year to year in the areas denoted by the titles of the following sections: # (1) Cognitive Development # (2) Learning and Memory Development # (3) Language.
Seminars in Intellectual Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017
The seminar examines seminal and contemporary conceptual and empirical literature on the development of elementary mathematical understandings. Key themes will include: (a) children's developing mathematical understandings; (b) children's developing use of varied representational forms in problem solving (number lines, area models, discrete models); (c) children's and adults' participation in varied in-and out-of-school collective practices that support mathematical thinking
Development of Elementary Numerical Understandings: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Intensive examination of advanced topics, which will vary from year ton (1) Social Development # (2) Motivation # (3) Personality Development.
Seminars in Social and Personality Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022
This Learning Sciences and Human Development graduate program required course provides a foundation for one strand of LS/HD scholarship: the sensorimotor grounding of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) concepts. We will cover seminal work from cognitive developmental psychology as well as a variety of theories of human learning, both of movement and of STEM concepts, that ultimately inform the design of artifacts and activities for equitable STEM learning.
Cultivating Cognitive Development: From Sensorimotor Intelligence to Embodied STEM Concepts: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
The doctoral program in Educational Psychology requires that students complete extensive projects of documentary and empirical research. As they engage in these projects, students will enroll (ordinarily during alternate years) in appropriate sections of this seminar. At each meeting, participants will present their own projects, and analyze those presented by others.
Research Seminars: Inquiry in Educational Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Examination of cognitive developmental approaches and their implication to instruction. Review of different learning theories that frame current issues of instructional design, teaching, and motivation, in relationship to educational equity and teacher learning/development.
Instruction and Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course is a doctoral seminar that covers theories of intelligence, the individual assessment of intellectual functioning and cognitive abilities, and relevant measurement concepts. Students will become familiar with a range of standardized assessment tools and techniques and learn how to administer and interpret some of the commonly used measures. Students also learn about appropriate test use, cultural influences, interpretation, related ethical and legal considerations, and report writing.
Assessment of Cognitive Functioning: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This is a doctoral seminar in which students learn a variety of assessment techniques and procedures for making diagnostic decisions about the learning strengths and weaknesses and socio-emotional status of children. They learn how to conduct observations and clinical interviews, administer and interpret standardized tests of cognitive and neuropsychological functioning, and interpret behavior rating scales. Finally, they become knowledgeable about the criteria for Special Education eligibility and how to present assessment findings orally and in writing.
Assessment of Developmental, Learning, and Socio-emotional-behavioral Disorders in Children: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Methods for assessment of handicapped children and implication for their education in regular classes. Such topics as nondiscriminating testing, least restrictive environments, alternative programs, parent communication, interpersonal relationships, characteristics, behavior of exceptional pupils are covered in studies of individual exceptional children in regular classes.
Assessment and Education of Exceptional Pupils in Regular Classes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course provides supervision and evaluation of student performance in the school-based assessment practicum assignment, which is a requirement of both EDUC 207B and EDUC 207C.
Supervision of Assessment Practicum: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course provides an overview of the social bases of behavior as it relates to applied psychology. Students will be exposed to scientific literature from the fields of social psychology, social influence, and social cognition. Students will acquire knowledge of interpersonal and intrapersonal processes and dynamics, intergroup and intragroup processes and dynamics, theories of personality, and diversity issues.
Social Bases of Behavior for Applied Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022
In this course is students will develop an understand the biological factors that underpin human development and the implications for applied psychology. Special attention will be paid to both typical development and biological processes gone awry, to support student understanding of how biopsychological factors may influence the external behaviors of youth.
Biological Bases of Behavior for Applied Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Writing support group focused on providing caring accountability and focused peer feedback on scholarly writing. All are welcome; our areas of specialty are typically concentrated in the Learning Sciences and STEM Education. We will occasionally have workshops focused on professional development issues such as navigating conferences, submitting to journals, and conducting peer review. This class works best if you have a specific piece of writing you are hoping to advance during the semester.
Academic Writing Support Group: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Developmental Psychopathology, which is the study of psychological problems in the context of human development. Students will examine theories and research that seek to explain the developmental origins and pathways by which psychopathology develops during childhood and adolescence. A wide range of influences relevant to the etiology and presentation of psychological and behavioral disorders-biological, cognitive, social, and environmental/societal-will be explored. In addition to childhood precursors of mental health disorders, students will also learn about the developmental consequences of such conditions. Students will also become familiar with the diagnostic criterion for the most common disorder in childhood and adolescence.
Developmental Psychopathology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Introduction to theories of human development and their application to elementary and preschool education. Topics include cognitive development, moral and social development, language acquisition, psycho-social perspectives on social-emotional development and a developmental analysis of classroom organization. Also supervised child study, individual and small group tutoring, and field experiences.
Development, Learning, and Instruction in Cultural Contexts: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Summer 2011 10 Week Session
Introduction to theories of human development and their application to elementary and preschool education. Topics include cognitive development, moral and social development, language acquisition, psycho-social perspectives on social-emotional development and a developmental analysis of classroom organization. Also supervised child study, individual and small group tutoring, and field experiences.
Social and Emotional Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
Advanced principles of human development and their application to teaching and learning school subjects. Also supervised child study, individual and small group tutoring, field experiences.
Advanced Human Development and Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
Advanced principles of human development and their application to teaching and learning school subjects. Also supervised child study, individual and small group tutoring, field experiences.
Advanced Human Development and Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This graduate seminar relates the goals of secondary English teaching to three major themes in the study of adolescent development: rationality, morality, and identity. These themes are then explored with reference to urban youth, along with other themes emerging from research in urban settings. The theme of identity is pursued further through a consideration of adolescents' "self-theories" and their motivational consequences. Students write papers on related topics for a class anthology.
Adolescent Development and the Teaching of Secondary English: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Historical and contemporary overview of the professional specialty of school psychology. Examines the empirical evidence for developmental and learning models in relation to the school curriculum and school organization for birth through pre-adolescence.
Theoretical and Scientific Bases for School Psychology, Part I: Childhood: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Historical and contemporary overview of the professional specialty of school psychology. Examines the empirical evidence for developmental and learning models in relation to the school curriculum and school organization for birth through pre-adolescence.
Theoretical and Scientific Bases for School Psychology, Part II: Adolescence: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Theories of consultation, consultation methods, and research on consultation applicable to primary and secondary prevention of school failure and school psychology practice.
School-Based Consultation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Theories and procedures for individual and group assessment of children's learning and behavior problems as applied to the design of individual and group programs in the classroom.
Educational Interventions for the School Psychologist: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Laboratory section to evaluate field work records and for supervision of school assignment. Must be taken concurrently with 213A-213B-213C-213D.
Laboratory for School Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Introduction to the field of human development for first year doctoral students.
Human Development and Education Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
This course provides an overview of theoretical perspectives on family socialization. We review the literature on parental beliefs and child-rearing practices and study how families affect children's social development. We also examine familes in the context of culture and social class. The course concludes by focusing on the relationship between families and schools. Course requirements: class participation, three short papers, reaction notebook.
Socialization Processes Within the Family: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
This course introduces students to the process of evaluating and conducting educational research. Students learn to become critical users of research by reading and evaluating published studies and by practicing formulating problem statements and research questions germane to their research topic of interest. Students learn the basic methods of qualitative and quantitative research and how to engage in applied research by proposing and discussing small-scale studies that can be carried out in their professional settings. The course provides students opportunities to practice crafting, critiquing and revising research questions and developing rigorous but practical methodologies.
Methods in Educational and Psychological Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This class aims to familiarize pre-service teachers with, and enable them to practice and reflect upon methods through which foster high school students’ engagement with and understanding of history and studies of social life. At the same time, it aims to deepen pre-service teachers’ understanding of the range of ways scholars have conceptualized the US history, world history, economics, and civics.
History and Social Studies Methods: Secondary: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This class is the second in the two-course series that is grounded in a critical understanding of California’s 2016 History-Social Science Framework with the goal of articulating a history-social science pedagogy that humanizes and empowers all students. Our year-long course question is: How can robust history-social science instruction support our students to connect their lives to the past, develop as critical thinkers about past, present, and future challenges, and take actions towards a more just and democratic world? This semester in particular aims to deepen pre-service teachers’ understanding of the range of ways scholars have conceptualized U.S. history, world history, economics and civics.
History and Social Studies Methods: Secondary: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Curriculum Development and Design’s central challenge is to create curriculum that expresses your philosophy and knowledge of curriculum and teaching. Using the practical and conceptual tools that you have learned in your coursework and your experience in the field, you will design a unit for your students. The unit will teach significant conceptual understandings and skills while supporting students’ academic language development as well as other needs and interests. We will draw on Wiggins and McTighe’s model of “backward design” to guide us through this process.
Curriculum Development and Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
In this course, students learn to turn mathematics education research into practice through the vehicle of lesson design. Students work in collaborative teams consisting of one beginning mathematics teacher in a teaching credential program and one or more doctoral student researchers. Together each team is responsible for designing, justifying, implementing, researching, and re-designing a lesson that seeks to embody one key aspect of the teacher's vision of effective mathematics instruction.
Towards Ambitious Instruction in Mathematics: Research Into Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010
Examination of the relation between development, learning, and instruction of scientific cognition, from the perspective of the cognitive developmental and cognition and instruction research literatures. The course project takes the form of the design, implementation and microgenetic analysis of a short-term educational design experiment. Emphasis on K-8.
Scientific Cognition: Development, Learning, and Instructional Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020
This course examines the societal risks and promises of our data-entrenched society and how classrooms might address the
new emergent necessities of democracy.
Politics and Pedagogies at the Intersections of Data, Technologies, and Inequalities: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023
The course will advance pre-service teachers' understanding of the pedagogical and programmatic practices for addressing linguistic and academic needs of multilingual learners in a bilingual/dual language context. The course will cover historical and theoretical foundations of bilingual education as related to bilingual and dual-language programs, including instruction, curriculum, and assessment. Instruction will happen in both Spanish and English so advanced proficient is required.
Foundations for Bilingual/Dual-language Education (Spanish): Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
A design-build-implement-analyze-theorize-publicize practicum forum for participants to first learn about design-based educational research work and receive support in their original and on-going projects. Following several orientation weeks, in which we discuss fundamental resources and participate in hands-on activities, subsequent readings are customized to individual students. The course culminates with presentations, and students submit an empirical research paper.
Design-Based Research Forum: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Study of special problems and issues in education related to mathematics, science and technology. Sections may vary from semester to semester.
Special Problems in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course is designed to introduce future Computer Science teachers to fundamental CS concepts through block-based programming. It will cover abstraction and decomposition and how these processes allow problems to be made simpler and solved algorithmically. It will also introduce teachers to the concepts of variables, loops, conditionals, functions and arrays.
This course will focus on teaching computer science in ways that build on students’ intuitive ideas.
Introduction to Block-Based Programming for Teachers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2021
This course explores contemporary research on mathematical cognition, with a particular emphasis on "higher order thinking skills" and mathematical problem solving. We discuss various frameworks for characterizing mathematical behavior and various methodologies for examining it. As an "action oriented" course in the EMST curricular sequence, this course includes a major course project. In their project, students engage in research incorporating the main ideas studied in the course.
Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2014
Paradigmatic Didactical Mathematical Problematic Situations are contexts for collaborative inquiry into the practice, epistemology, and pedagogy of mathematics. Building on the Learning Sciences literature, the course creates opportunities for students to engage in interesting mathematical problems from secondary-school content. Final projects include design, implementation, and analysis of a lesson. Meets the "Discipline" programmatic requirement of graduate students in EMST and MACSME.
Paradigmatic Didactical Mathematical Problematic Situations: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2017
The course explores commonly asked questions concening gender, mathematics, and science. We will discuss whether these are appropriate questions and examine evidence related to the questions. This course will also consider whether policies and practices concerning gender, mathematics, and science should be changed and, if so, identify some of the steps that could be taken to improve the current situation.
Gender, Mathematics and Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
This course builds foundational knowledge of important contemporary issues and research in mathematics education. The seminar is designed around readings, discussion, and course activities aimed at developing a comprehensive grounding in the literature on current research and innovations in mathematics education as well as historical debates surrounding student achievement, curriculum, teaching practice, and teacher preparation.
Survey of Current Research and Issues in Mathematics Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021
Understanding education policy is important to improve U.S. public schools. Students have opportunities to read about and analyze the design and implementation of policy, as well as have interactions with individuals who make and influence federal, state and local educational policy. One aim of this course is to support aspiring teachers, researchers, and policymakers to develop a knowledge base about key policies that have informed (and continue to inform) the outcomes of K-12 public schools.
Shaping Education Policy:An Introductory Course for Aspiring Teachers, Researchers, and Policymakers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2008
Many approaches to education take the knowledge to be taught as fixed, and the manipulable objects to be things like methods. By focusing on knowledge per se: what is it; how is it organized and encoded in humans, we are led to questions about what should be taught, based on principles of learnability, etc., rather than just "effective methods." This tactic is valuable in view of the radical changes information technology may have on what we need to teach and what general areas are teachable.
Constructive Epistemology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course is designed to promote effective teaching methods for science and mathematics classrooms, including strategies for lesson planning, assessment, and English language learner support. The course supports student teachers of secondary science and mathematics in undertaking an inquiry project on their own teaching practice and earning a credential for teaching in California secondary schools.
Secondary STEM Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course is designed to promote effective teaching methods for science and mathematics classrooms, including strategies for lesson planning, assessment, and English learner support.
Secondary STEM Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2004
In this course we will study the histories of race, ethnicity, nationality, and culture. Your stories will always be respected in this class. We will learn about the history of social movements and mass struggles against injustice, including the establishment of Ethnic Studies programs in public schools and universities. Using Ethnic Studies as our foundation, we will explore multiple dimensions of knowledge and learn how to critically think, engage, and respond to social issues.
Foundations for Ethnic Studies in the Classroom, K-12: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
How can we use educational and social theory, particularly approaches rooted in Ethnic Studies, to inform our emergent practices as educators? How can we build and sustain an intellectually active, reflective, and socially just teaching practice that is responsive to the communities we will work with/for? What are some key analytic and practical approaches to addressing persistent issues in society and schooling, and how can Ethnic Studies approach help us in addressing this question? How can we apply these to better understand our own experiences and the experiences of others?
Understanding Teaching, Learning, and Equity Using Ethnic Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2020 8 Week Session
Students in this course will construct a model for how Universal Design for Learning acts to improve the experiences of all learner populations. Students will defend the best practices of UDL as they relate to brain-based research. Students will evaluate lesson plans and resources that leverage UDL practices during instruction across the content areas of math, language arts, science, social studies, with a focus on English Learners. Students will identify the key components of assessments.
Universal Design for Learning in K-12 Classrooms: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
The course will be organized by principal activities: group readings, book reports, expert and novice methodology presentations, in-class research and analysis, and student research. For each activity, we will look at the full breadth of methodology, from "how-to" methods and specific areas of concern to general questions including: what constitutes objective data, what are strengths and weaknesses of methods in regard to various issues, and what are the relations between theory and data?
Qualitative Methodology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course is designed to introduce future Computer Science teachers to fundamental disciplinary concepts through Python programming. The course builds on and extends concepts and skills introduced in EDUC 224 – Introduction to Block-Based Programming for Teachers. The first half of the course will revisit fundamental concepts from EDUC 224 using Python. The second half of the course will introduce students to object oriented programming.
Introduction to Python for Teachers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
The premise of Universal Design for Learning and the Arts in K-12 Classrooms resides in the belief that teaching and learning through the arts deepens content understanding, enriches personal experience, and creates a variety of culturally relevant points through which students may enter, contribute and make meaning of and communicate their own learning. Here “the arts” refers to the broad field of visual and performing arts. The readings, in-class dialogue and arts experiences are designed to promote your active, embodied engagement in the practical application of arts modalities in the classroom. (TPE 1.7)
Universal Design for Learning and the Arts in K-12 Classrooms: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will introduce teachers to principles and practices to effectively teach introductory middle-school and high-school computer science courses. In particular, the course will focus on methods to support students who have been historically marginalized in computer science. Teachers will learn how to promote collaboration and engage in assessment in computer science classes.
Methods for Teaching Computer Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will introduce teachers to principles and practices to effectively teach introductory middle-school and high-school computer science courses from an activity-based approach. Building on the introduction to teaching methods for computer science in EDUC 229, this course will emphasize activity and laboratory-based teaching approaches that promote peer learning and collaboration in middle-school and high-school computer science classrooms.
Methods for Teaching Activity-Based Computer Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2013
Students will examine problem solving in children and adults, from a predominantly cognitive science perspective, beginning with an examination of thinking involved in diverse problem types. Students will then analyze the literature concerning cognitive issues that transcend problem types, including representation, "understanding," access and availability of knowledge, access to one's own cognitive processing, categorization, the architecture of knowledge, and the control of cognition.
Proseminar: Problem Solving and Understanding: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
This seminar is an introduction to research on how language and other forms of communication influence what and how people learn. Students are introduced to influential theories of discourse from sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and the philosophy of language and learn about how they have been used to understand learning, especially in math and science classrooms. Students take turns helping lead discussion and complete a project relevant to the topic and their own research interests.
Discourse and Learning in Math and Science Classrooms: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2011
"Conceptual change" concerns broad and deep changes in a person's knowledge about a domain. This opposes it, for example, to the learning of facts and skill acquisition. The course emphasizes recent cognitive science-oriented approaches to: defining "broad and deep" learning; understanding its properties. It draws on diverse other approaches including developmental psychology; analogies to the history of science; "misconceptions;" computational and epistemological approaches.
Conceptual Change: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2020
The course grapples with the ideological and cultural frameworks that normatively frame issues of diversity and equity in the design of learning environments to identify their affordances and constraints. It investigates alternative ways of designing learning opportunities that serve to disrupt social inequality (i.e., Designed to Disrupt) through close analysis of case studies of learning and teaching in and out of K-12 schools.

Designed to Disrupt: Critical Approaches to the Design of Learning Environments: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2018 8 Week Session
This is the introductory course for all students in the BE3 teacher education program, and provides a foundation for the topics and field-based experiences within the program.
Teaching, Learning and Equity I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course promotes understanding of equitable approaches to teaching and learning in the context of public education in California as well as our nation. It focuses on conceptual frameworks and pedagogical/curricular strategies that enable students' social-emotional and moral growth as well as positive identity development. We also explore how historical, structural, cultural, economic, and political considerations facilitate or create challenges to students' productive growth and development.
Teaching, Learning and Equity II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course promotes understanding of equitable approaches to teaching and learning in the context of public education in California as well as our nation. It explores policy and practice that promote or restrict students’ access to an equitable education. It also focuses on conceptual frameworks and pedagogical/curricular strategies that support the creation of inclusive educational spaces. A main goal of this course is to support educators develop a knowledge base about key policies that have shaped (and continue to shape) the outcomes of students in K-12. The course also provides opportunities for the examination and recognition of our own values and dispositions and how they might influence teaching and learning.
Teaching, Learning and Equity III: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2019
The course examines how ideologies of race, smartness, and gender frame policy and practice in STEM education, and with what impact on minoritized students. The course then presents case studies of STEM curricula and programs designed to disrupt normative frameworks rationalizing STEM for minoritized youth that imagine different social and political imperatives for STEM learning. The course concludes by identifying enduring tensions and new possibilities for STEM education in (and out) schools.
Critical Studies in K-12 STEM Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Elementary and secondary strategies in primary language instruction (Spanish), particularly for a bilingual setting. Literacy development and content area instruction will be emphasized with lesson plan design tied to state standards, and measured with various assessment tools. This course fulfills a major requirement for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Bilingual Authorization Program.
Methodology for Language Instruction in a Bilingual Setting (Spanish): Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2020 8 Week Session, Fall 2018
In keeping with the BE3 program’s mission of equity and excellence, this course will use a critical literacy framework to evaluate reading and writing instructional approaches in math, science, and English language arts. Course discussions and assignments will be centered in Janks’ (2010) book Literacy and Power. Students will also read, discuss, and produce discipline-specific texts related to each dimension of Janks’ framework: domination, diversity, access, and design.
Reading and Writing at the Secondary Level: Critical Literacy in the Disciplines: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
Curriculum, instructional theory, and methods for teaching mathematics and science in elementary schools.
Elementary Teaching in Mathematics and Science: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Introduction to contemporary research, pedagogy, and policy in science education. Reviews contemporary empirical research, standards and reform documents, and curricular materials. Students conduct interviews with young learners and engage in their own analyses of classroom video and written work to learn to notice and respond to student thinking. Strategies for equitable instruction, including addressing the needs of dual language learners and minoritized populations, are explored.
Scientific Thinking and Learning: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
In the MA Support Seminar you will be developing a practitioner-based research project focused on a problem of practice connected to your development as a teacher toward a more socially just world. Your final Research/Prospectus Paper will share your project and findings, and integrate it with your learning throughout BE3 as well as inform focus areas for your professional growth as a teacher for a more socially just word.
Practitioner-based Research Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course introduces key understanding for how to effectively engage elementary age students in scientific ways of learning about the world. Grounded in historical perspectives, course activities and assignments will relate to the most recent vision for science education: The Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2011).
Science Education for Elementary School Children: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course is designed to strengthen methods for students' mathematical development. Students will gain facility with methods that support the learning of children with diverse instructional needs. The course emphasizes an inquiry-based approach that includes the use of rich problems, appropriate tools and representations, various discourse formats, and ongoing assessment.
Elementary Teaching in Mathematics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Lectures and workshops on curriculum, instructional theory, and methods for teaching language arts in elementary schools. Incorporates competencies for Reading Instruction Competency Assessment (RICA) and for teaching children whose primary language is not English.
Foundations for Teaching Language Arts: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course is an introduction to literacy and language arts theory and methodology for K-12. Readings focus on theory, research, and evidence-based practices that reflect current understanding of language and literacy learning through linguistically and culturally diverse school settings. This knowledge base will help you critically analyze methods, instructional practices and curricular choices, and to support literacy development. We will explore a variety of effective teaching practices that address the development of reading, writing, listening and speaking, including an ongoing examination of optimal literacy instruction for English language learners, which you will implement in your teaching placements.
Foundations for Literacy and Language Arts, K-12: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Introduction to reading and writing instruction in elementary school settings, basic literacy skills, instructional methods and approaches, assessment procedures, and reading and writing theories.
Foundations for Teaching Reading in Grades K-8: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Lectures and workshops on curriculum, instructional theory, and methods for teaching social studies methods in elementary schools.
Foundations for Teaching Social Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
Designed to build on the existing strengths of students and practitioners of Ethnic Studies who desire to become full-time pk/tk-12 educators–or have direct experience in pk/tk-12 spaces–this two-credit course seeks to prepare participants for the intensive work of interrogating their own complex identities; to create a space for thinking about how the forces that have shaped those identities will influence how participants design and teach Ethnic Studies curricula; and provides an opportunity to plan for how participants will confront the complex realities of implementing and sustaining Ethnic Studies in a variety of schooling contexts.
Practitioner-Focused Ethnic Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
This course will introduce students to the broad areas of language study and explore the implications of such study for teaching and learning. Among course topics are: the nature of language, the meanings of "grammar," the varieties of English, the development of language in the preschool and school years. This course will be required for all Ed.D. students and recommended as an introductory course to all students who have had no formal coursework in linguistics.
Language Study for Educators: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2018
Students will review trends in literacy theory, and then will examine current theories of written language acquisition and literacy learning. Connections will be made between research, theory, and practice.
Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literacy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2011, Fall 2010
This course deals with issues related to language learning and development in school-age children. How do they acquire the language skills needed for literacy and academic development? How do children make the transition from home to school language use? How do children learn a second language? What happens when learning a second language results in the loss of the first language? We will consider the educational, social and cognitive implications of these issues.
Issues in First and Second Language Acquisition: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This course explores the development of curriculum theory and the role of the curriculum specialist in the United States since the Progressive Period. Emphasizing a survey of classic texts and key figures, the course covers the development of three schools of thought: social efficiency approaches, child-centered approaches, and social reconstructionist approaches. It concludes with a study of curriculum theory since the Reconceptualists.
Foundations of Curriculum Theory in the United States: A Survey: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This seminar examines the emerging concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence—terms originally
developed by autistic activists and self-advocates seeking to depathologize autism and other forms of
neurological, mental, and cognitive difference. Readings will incorporate perspectives from a wide range of
research programs, including disability studies, anthropology, rhetoric, and critical theory. We will focus in
particular on semiosis and consider how neurodiversity sensibility subverts traditional interpretations of
autistic language as dysfunctional and noncommunicative.

Autism as Neurodiversity: Scholarship, Politics, and Culture: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2001
This course will focus on classroom practices aimed at improving the academic and social achievement of multilingual learners. We will learn instructional strategies, engage in collaborative lesson planning, and analyze assessments to prepare pre-service teachers to demonstrate an understanding of culturally-and linguistically-responsive instruction:
Multilingual Learner Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012
Throughout the lifespan we are socialized through language to become competent participants and members of various groups and communities, including schooling institutions. For the past 20 years, this theory and method for analyzing human development has made important contribution to our understanding of how we learn to become competent members of community, how we learn through language, and how we are socialized into language. This course will provide opportunities to overview the theoretical cornerstones of language socialization as a field of study, as well as review current studies and chart future research trajectories. Course participants are expected to collect and analyze audio/video data from any educational and other learning context where language socialization might be taking place.
Language Socialization: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2016, Fall 2012
The study of narrative has solidified into an important body of literature that is of particular relevance to educators. Across learning contexts, narrative is a ubiquitous literacy tool, and as such, it underlies many learning activities. We tell narratives for their potency to explain, rationalize, and delineate past, present, and possible experience. This narrative act is a collaborative undertaking, co-told and designed with the audience's input, addressing an audience's present and future concerns. Narrative can thus potentially create shared understandings and community among those participating in narrative activity, yet narratives can become sites for rejection and contestation. Narrative is also a socializing tool. The course will also address methodological approaches to the study of narrative that are relevant to the field of education. Students enrolled in this course are expected to collect narrative samples from naturally occurring interactions (video and audio-taped conversation, classroom interaction), written narrative texts, or other.
Narrative across Learning Contexts: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2015, Spring 2012
This course is designed to provide opportunities for students to observe and analyze classroom talk and interaction, and the language of classroom material and ideological artifacts. In this course we will survey the classic literature on classroom discourse and we explore new orientations to the study of classroom talk. We will draw from literature from interrelated disciplinary perspectives that include linguistics, language socialization, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, and the enthnography of speaking.
Perspectives on Classroom Discourse: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 8 Week Session
We will examine the instructional design, practice, and policies that shape educational contexts for English Language Learners (ELLs) in urban schools. The topics address the relationship between language policy, immigration, language development, and the intersections of race and ethnicity. The course will also survey key research on language use, bilingualism, and second language acquisition and how the findings of this research are reflected on educational practices and policies.
Design, Practice, and Policy in Educational Settings for English Language Learners: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023
The course offers students opportunities to learn about a variety of critical research methodologies, examine issues of education, and design research projects.
Critical Qualitative Research Methods in Education: Issues, Approaches, and Design: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
The goal of this class is to provide students with ongoing opportunities to expand their qualitative methodological toolkit, with particular emphasis on the following topics: developing a conceptual framework, study design, data collection, data analysis and representation, and writing social sciences research. These topics will be examined in the context of the design, development, and write-up of students' own research.
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course introduces students to the practical fundamentals of data mining and machine learning with just enough theory to aid intuition building. The course is project-oriented, with a project beginning in class every week and to be completed outside of class by the following week, or two weeks for longer assignments. The in-class portion of the project is meant to be collaborative, with the instructor working closely with groups to understand the learning objectives and help them work through any logistics that may be slowing them down. Weekly lectures introduce the concepts and algorithms which will be used in the upcoming project.
Data Mining and Analytics: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Single Subject English candidates learn concepts and develop practices for teaching English Language Arts in California Schools.
Methods for Teaching English in the Secondary Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The second semester of the methods course is designed to continue introducing the teaching of English, with a focus on strategies grounded in an understanding of theories of teaching and learning. Besides considering the English curriculum in general, the course focuses special attention on several topics, such as second language learners and the uses of technology in the English classroom. It also explores the uses of portfolios for tracking student learning and for assessing teachers' growth. By the end of the term, students will have a repertoire of theoretically grounded strategies to use to meet the learning needs of diverse student populations.
Methods for Teaching English in the Secondary Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
The purpose of this year-long course is to ground emerging teachers in the essential ideas and values that guide their work in schools and their studies in the Berkeley Teacher Education Program. It provides opportunities for future teachers to deepen their notions of what socially just, democratic programs, initiatives, classrooms and schools look like, and why; to analyze the challenges to creating socially just, teaching and learning spaces; and to imagine the possible actions that teachers can take to promote such classrooms and schools.
Institutional Change and Public Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2011 10 Week Session, Summer 2009 10 Week Session, Spring 2009
This course is primarily concerned with methods of teaching English as a second language (ESL) to K-12 students and adults. Traditional methods emphasizing the development of structural knowledge, and new methods focused on the development of communications skills, will be examined. Topics include teaching English through content instruction, "structured English immersion," syllabus and curriculum design, second language reading, and language testing for placement and evaluation.
Approaches in Teaching English as a Second Language: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
The objective of this course is to prepare teachers to work with linguistic minority students. We will consider ways in which different groups socialize children for learning and ways in which learning patterns acquired in the home can conflict with the culture of school. Student teachers will consider instructional approaches for working with linguistically and culturally diverse students in their classrooms.
Teaching Linguistic and Cultural Minority Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course explores new practices of literacy by contemporary youth enabled by digital technologies in places beyond schools. It also assesses how these practices work to enhance or impede literacy and social development in schools. It develops a New Literacy Studies conceptual framework and an ethnography of communications methodological framework for students to understand and analyze these new literacy practices.
New Literacies of Digital Youth: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2019
The central question for this course is “what does it mean to learn in a racially-structured society?” Existing frameworks are often constrained by their theoretical and methodological approaches, often emphasizing the lens of structure, participation, or the individual. This course will explore an emerging body of scholarship in the Learning Sciences that has taken a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to questions of learning, identity, power, politics, and ethics.
Learning & Identitiy in a Racially-Structured Society: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2001 10 Week Session, Summer 2000 10 Week Session, Summer 1999 10 Week Session
Explores both formal (e.g., standardized measures) and informal (e.g., reading inventories, portfolios) measures of assessing reading and writing ability. The course is designed to familiarize students with the most widely used reading measures, to develop competency in administering and interpreting these measures, and to develop an understanding of current issues in the assessment of reading comphrehension. Students will explore the issues of cultural bias in testing, the organization and display of student knowledge in different formats, and expectations for the achievement of cultural and linguistic minority students.
Evaluation and Assessment in Reading and Literacy Instruction: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Spring 2016
Introduction to reading and writing in secondary school settings, basic literacy skills, instructional materials and approaches, and assessment procedures appropriate for use in secondary content area courses. Learning from text theory to practice.
Foundations in Reading (Learning from Text) for Secondary Schools: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Focuses on students' and teachers' use of language from interrelated perspectives, particularly developmental, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic. Designed to provide students with a view of the classroom as a unique setting whose aims are fostered or rendered problematic by the nature of language use. Students conduct small-scale studies in classroom settings.
Qualitative Research in Language/Literacy Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Examination of the major linguistic, psycho- and sociolinguistic concepts and theories of discourse and their application to the analysis of spoken and written texts in education. Topics include: coherence and cohesion, deixis, speech acts, genres, systematics of conversation and ritual constraints, scripts and frames, information structure, narrative structure.
Discourse Analysis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Elite intercollegiate competition is unique to the United States. How and why did it evolve in isolation from the rest of the world? The expansion and democratization of public universities, the Industrial revolution, and student organizations contributed to this emerging phenomenon, and the course continues with an exploration of the social, cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped what today we call college sports.
The History of College Sports in the United States: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022
This is the core course for graduate students who intend to complete the interdisciplinary Designate Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization, and is open to non-DE graduate students as well. The course will provide consistent engagement with indigenous languages, speakers, and texts. The course will provide an overview of historical and social contexts that produce language endangerment and loss; definitions and debates over terms and methods associated with language revitalization; ethical and methodological issues in language revitalization work; practical skills in language documentation and linguistic analysis; and case studies and outcomes in language revitalization.
Indigenous Language Revitalization: Contexts, Methods, Outcomes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
An examination of selected topics on reading research including historical aspects of reading research, word recognition, reading comprehension, the relationship between decoding and comprehension, attitudes toward reading, and models of the reading process.
Reading Research: Sociocognitive Perspective: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
This course examines how an expanded ethnographic toolkit can support research on language and literacy practices in physical, online, or hybrid environments.
Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Language and Literacy in Traditional and Digital Environment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2006
Critical examination of major theories and approaches to research in writing. Preparation for designing and conducting research projects on the written language.
Research in Writing: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2020
This course introduces students to the key principles of a cultural-historical approach to learning and development. It will engage student in a range of interactive activities and collaborative work to introduce students to the core topics of CHAT: culture, mediation, artifacts/tools, development, historicity, zoped, joint mediated activity, remediation education/enculturation/teaching/learning, method of dual stimulation, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Generation Activity Theory.
Introduction to Cultural Historical Activity Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
The cultural study of sport examines the ways in which institutionalized physical activity embodies and reflects social meanings and identities. The social practice of sport provides a space in which dominant discourses of race, gender, and social class are reproduced and resisted. As these physical activities become institutionalized, commercialized, and embedded within educational institutions themselves, individuals must navigate a nuanced and often conflicted terrain in their respective participation and performance. This course, then, examines the role of sport in society broadly and the relationship of sport and education more specifically. The curriculum reviews the writing and research on sport and education from a sociological, psychological, and philosophical perspective, with a particular focus on the constructed divide of mind and body, as manifested in the institutional conflicts between school and sport.
Theoretical Foundations for the Cultural Study of Sport in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The increased institutionalization and regulation of intercollegiate athletics have created a new and specialized career field composed of counselors, academic advisers, learning specialists, tutors, and technological and administrative support staff. This course will investigate the historical, philosophical, and ethical foundation of these services, focusing in particular on the analysis of an academic advising and tutorial program for student athletes.
Academic Support Services for Student Athletes: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
The goal of this course is to provide students with ongoing opportunities to expand their qualitative methodological toolkit, with particular emphasis on the following topics: rethinking what it means to "study" human activity, study design, developmental dialogues, data collection, data reduction, data analysis, and representation, and writing social sciences research.
(co)Participant Observation Research in the Field: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
This course covers AI and computer adaptive learning approaches in education. We will cover theories and methodologies underpinning current approaches to knowledge discovery and data mining in education and survey the latest developments in the broad field of human learning research. The course is project-based; teams will be introduced to online learning platforms and their datasets with the objective of pairing data analysis with theory or implementation. Literature review will add context and grounding to projects.
Machine Learning in Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
(Required of all students in the Division of Educational Administration and Evaluation.) Concepts, theories, and issues related to administration and evaluation. Application is made to governmental policy for school systems.
Issues in Educational Administration and Policy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session, Summer 2003 10 Week Session
This course gives candidates an opportunity to pull together the four concentration areas of the master's program: Teaching and Learning (TI), Educational Organizational Leadership and Management (EOLM), Education Change and Reform (ECR), and Issues in Urban Education (IUE). Graduate candidates will deepen their inquiry through the use of problem-solving and reflection as they apply the theory of course work to the daily reality of becoming leaders in schools.
Issues in Urban Educational Leadership I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session, Summer 2003 10 Week Session
This course will provide students the opportunity to make connections between theory and practice as candidates look forward to positions as site-based leaders.
Issues in Urban Educational Leadership: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010
The course brings together three bodies of knowledge, developed by people who often work quite separately in the academy: philosophical discourses on the aims of education; research on effective schools and instruction; socio-cultural critiques of schooling inequities. Our quest in this course is to derive from these bodies of theory a conceptualization of the good school around the aims of performance, understanding, and justice.
Good Schools for All Children: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
Concepts of power, authority, legitimacy, professions, controls, incentives, etc., as they apply to education or other social services.
Organization Theory in Education and Other Social Services: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025
This course is about providing students with those tools and frameworks, particularly important for understanding the intended and at times unintended consequences of policies, practices, structures, and behaviors. While the course will discuss field experimental approaches, students will also learn what to do when one cannot (and should not) perform randomized controlled experiments through quasi-experimental methods and by using observational data.

Causal Inference for Policy and Education Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The purpose of this course is to ground aspiring urban leaders in the essential ideas and values that guide their work in schools and their studies in the Principal Leadership Institute. It provides opportunities for future school leaders to deepen their notions of what socially just schools look like, and why; to analyze the challenges to creating socially just schools in urban centers; and to imagine the possible actions that leaders can take to promote such schools.
Urban School Leadership and Management 1: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Concepts and practices associated with the analysis of teaching and clinical supervision of teachers in urban systems. The role of the urban school leader in supervising teachers.
School Supervision: Theory and Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
Concepts and practices related to the administration of personnel services in urban school systems and social organizations.
Personnel Administration in School Systems and Social Organizations: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2011, Fall 2010
Research group for graduate students specializing in research on teachers' work and organizational and policy contexts of teaching. Complements but does not substitute for foundational course work in research methods or substantive areas of specialization. Strengthens preparation for research through (a) consultation and feedback on research design, data collection, analysis, and writing; and (b) reading and discussion on selected topics related to teachers' work.
Research Group on the Working Lives of Teachers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Students will examine the ways in which state, district, and workplace policy bears upon various aspects of teachers' work. Special emphasis is given to the way in which policy choices--at whatever level--shape the experience of teaching and the organization of schooling. Among the policy areas considered are those governing membership in the teaching occupation, teaching assignments, classroom autonomy regarding curriculum and instruction, performance evaluation, and opportunities for professional development. This course is a requirement for students in educational administration and those students completing the Professional Administration Services Credential. It is open to all other interested students.
Organizational Policy and Teachers' Work: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013
The course focuses on research on the education of prospective and practicing teachers, and on the institutional, organizational and policy contexts in which that research has been pursued. It is designed for students who are interested in doing research in this field or in becoming teacher educators, and is built on several organizing questions. What is the work (and workplace) for which teachers are being prepared? What is the occupational conception of teaching that underpins practice, policy, and research? What is the significance of teacher education's fluctuating fortunes and shifting institutional forms? What is the field's capacity for research on teacher education? By comparison with research on teaching and learning, research on the education of teachers has been under-developed both conceptually and methodologically. Throughout the course, we will be judging the accomplishments and limitations of this field of practice and study, and locating opportunities for future research and development.
Research on the Education of Teachers: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2007
The purpose of this course is to build on the essential ideas and values discussed in EDUC 262A: Urban School Leadership and Management I by focusing on effective teaching. This instructional vision guides the work of leaders in schools. It provides opportunities for future school leaders to deepen their notions of what socially just schools look like, and why; to analyze the challenges to creating socially just schools in urban centers; and to imagine the possible actions that leaders can take to promote such schools. The course will be framed by one major question. Goals have been listed under each question.
Urban School Leadership and Management 2: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2015
Legal structures and practices in Education for teachers and counselors. Teacher, pupil, counselor rights and responsibilities.
Legal Issues in Educational Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2018
This course will explore the statutory and judicial constraints upon local descision making as well as the areas in which site decision making is permitted and required.
Legal and Policy Issues in Urban Educational Leadership: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
Course reviews theories of why the state enters the child and family policy arena, then walks through four specific policy domains. Utilizing multi-media material, funded through ILTI at UCOP, including interviews with leaders in the field, video clips, and conventional academic journal articles.
Early Childhood Policy - Children, Contexts, and Politics in Diverse Societies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2021
Colleges and universities face numerous challenges today - from both the demand, or student and family perspective, and the supply, or institutional viewpoint. This course will utilize frameworks and theories from economics to better understand the costs, benefits, and incentives colleges and students face.

Higher Education Policy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2009
Topics to be considered include the following: alternative methods of assessing the contribution of education to economic growth, demand for education services, education production functions, cost analysis and sectorial planning, economic aspects of innovation.
Economics of Education and Other Social Services: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018
This introductory graduate seminar will engage the research literature on race, diversity, and educational policy to provide a foundation for examining contemporary issues in American public schooling. We will examine research on race, culture, and learning alongside more policy driven research on school structures, governance, finance, politics, and policy. In doing so, we will blend micro level examinations of teaching and learning with macro level considerations of politics and policy.
Research Advances in Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
The purpose of this course is to ground aspiring urban school leaders in the essential concepts, skills, and demands related to managing school finance and resources at the site level. Specifically, it will focus on resource allocations and concepts of equity with resources allocations.
School Site Finance and Resources 1: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session
The purpose of this course is to ground aspiring urban school leaders in the essential concepts, skills, and demands related to managing school finance and resources at the site level. Specifically, it will focus on understanding funding sources, analyzing resource allocations, governance related to resource allocations, and leveraging different types of resources.
School Site Finance and Resources II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Numerous issues from public investment in education, educational choice and charter schools, personnel decisions, incentives, to the need for accountability in the education sector all share a common economic basis. This course will introduce students to economic theory and provide them with the knowledge of the stills that economists tend to use to address complex policy problems. This course assumes no prior knowledge of economics.
Economics of Education: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
This course aims to provide first-year graduate students at Berkeley School of Education(BSE)with tools and resources needed to be successful while enrolled in BSE MA/PhD programs and to support their development as education scholars and practitioners. The course will address these aims along five dimensions: (1) scholarly writing; (2) foundational knowledge for exploring educational issues; (3) community building; (4) scholarly identity development; (5) goal setting. Throughout the course we will explore some of the prominent themes, texts, and scholarly traditions in the study of education and human learning. We will engage in critical discussion of the topics, theories, and methods used in the field of education.
First Year Graduate Seminar in Education Research & Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This seminar constitutes one of the ways in which the Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center fulfills its role of supporting student research. The topic of the seminar will change from semester to semester, following themes chosen by the instructor and the participants. The seminar is an opportunity for students and faculty to present their recent and ongoing work for in-depth review and commentary. In addition, visitors to the campus with expertise relevant to the topic(s) under examination will be invited to present at the seminar and join in the discussion. Students taking this course for two units will make a presentation of a current research interest to the seminar. Students taking this course for three units will also be required to attend a one-hour discussion following each presentation and will write a critique of one other student's presentation.
BEAR Center Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Introduces principles and methods commonly associated with qualitative field research in the social sciences. Includes assigned readings on basic methodological topics; structured activities related to research design, research ethics and human subjects protection, data collection, data organization and reduction, data analysis; and field research experience through individual or team projects. Course satisfies the qualitative methods requirement for students in the Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation (POME) program.
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course explores the educational contexts and experiences of teachers and students in urban schools. The topics that we will cover include issues of race and privilege, the relationship between good teaching and learning in the context of immigration, desegregation efforts, and educational policies towards linguistic and culturally diverse students. We will discuss the politics of access and inclusion, in particular we will examine issues affecting the performance of language learners.
Issues in Teaching and Learning for Educational Leaders I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
In this course we will build on the topics discussed in EDUC 271E: Issues in Teaching and Learning for Educational Leaders I by exploring the issues of personal identity and vision related to school contexts. To this end, the readings provide theoretical approaches to help you develop and support claims about your personal identity as well as the interplay of personal identity in schools. The assignments are designed to help you develop and refine a personal vision for working in diverse educational settings.
Issues in Teaching and Learning for Educational Leaders II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2015
This course introduces early-stage doctoral students to qualitative research so that they will be able to read qualitative studies critically, and learn to design and conduct qualitatively oriented studies themselves. Beginning with an overview of the epistemological assumptions behind different kinds of research, the course will explore various approaches and the kinds of topics and queries they support. Students will read and critique examples of published research, partially chosen for the interests of course participants. Next, students will investigate topic development, the various methods of collecting and analyzing qualitative data, and report writing.

Introduction to Doctoral Research: Qualitative Methods: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
The course focuses on preparing future school leaders for leading school improvement by using statistical analysis, understanding the use of formative assessments, evaluating and using educational research particularly related to instructional materials and best practices, creating an effective PowerPoint presentation, and understanding different types of classroom grading and grade reporting practices. Term assessments include keys to quality assessment audit, best practice case study, research-based instructional materials analysis, educational research presentation, grading policy, and several reflection pieces.
School Data Analysis for Principals: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The course focuses on preparing future school leaders for leading school improvement by using statistical analysis, understanding the use of formative assessments, evaluating and using educational research particularly related to instructional materials and best practices, creating an effective PowerPoint presentation, and understanding different types of classroom grading and grade reporting practices. Term assessments include keys to quality assessment audit, best practice case study, research-based instructional materials analysis, educational research presentation, grading policy, and several reflection pieces.
School Data Analysis for Principals: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022
Public education is a public service, and everyone has a legal right to participate in the operation of the school district, both through their elected trustees and through participation in their governing board meetings. It at its core, public education is a people business and an essential service. As such, success in public education requires recruiting, hiring, training, supporting, and retaining highly effective educators and support staff. It requires creating and maintaining an organization and environment in which these professionals thrives for the betterment of the whole community.
People and Personnel: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
This year-long research and writing group is intended for graduate students who plan to specialize in studying educational policy implementation. In the course, we will investigate what happens from the time a policy is enacted until the policy is actually implemented in classrooms, schools, and districts. The centerpiece of the research group is reviewing and providing feedback to members on their works-in-progress related to policy implementation. The goal is to strengthen participants' preparation for research in this area through a combination of consultation and feedback on specific problems related to conceptualizing and enacting high quality research, including but not limited to the formulation of research questions, theory development, research design, data collection, analysis, writing, and publication. We will supplement this activity by reading research together to help build a shared understanding of the different theoretical perspectives that can potentially imform the study of policy implementation, including institutional theory, social movements analysis, conflict perspectives, and organizational learning theroy.
Research Group on Policy Implementation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012
This course is the first in three in a series entitled Democratic Decision-Making. Together, the courses examine decision-making through different lenses, beginning with this summer’s exploration of the role of democracy in discussions on public education. Romantic notions tying education and democracy have been around since this nation’s founding. Wealthy and intellectual, the framers of the Constitution envisioned the torch-bearers of their new democracy to be “well-educated men” able to translate the vision set forth by the time’s great thinkers (or at least those who were recognized as such - White, well-to-do men like Thomas Paine and John Locke).
Democratic Decision Making: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Summer 2012 8 Week Session
This course is the second in a series of three entitled Democratic-Making. Together, the courses examine democratic decision-making through different lenses, beginning with Decision-Making 1's macro exploration of the interwoven nature of American democracy and its system of public education. In this course, we will examine democratic decision-making at the micro and mesco levels, including in relation to our own personal and interpersonal identities.
Democratic Decision Making II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Students will learn good measurement practice by constructing an instrument and investigating its measurement properties (specifically, validity, and reliability). The act of measuring will be positioned as a link between qualitative observations and quantitative measures, and this will be discussed in a variety of contexts, such as interviewing, standardized testing, and performance assessment. We will discuss both classical and modern testing approaches from conceptual and practical points of view.
Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences I: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
An introduction to classical test theory and item response theory from a theoretical viewpoint. Application of these techniques to a practical measurement situation will be studied. Topics such as test bias, computerized and polytomous response modes will be discussed.
Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences II: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
The seminar will address a current research issue in the area of educational and psychological measurement. Topics will vary from year to year. Some examples are polytomous item response theory, measurement of cognitive processes and learning, and assessment issues in evaluation.
Research Seminar in Measurement: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and multidimensional item response theory.
Multidimensional Measurement: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
A second course in educational statistics and data analysis. Emphasis is on using and interpreting multiple regression, loglinear models, and the analysis of variance for a variety of data sets and with a variety of analytic objectives. Must be taken concurrently with the computer laboratory Education 275L.
Data Analysis in Educational Research II: Read More [+]