Extracting meaning from data remains one of the most important tasks of research and industry. The modern age of computers and the Internet has made vast amounts of data available, making it more important than ever to understand how to collect, process, and analyze these data ethically and responsibly. Focuses on learning data science fundamentals and the pedagogical methods to integrating data science into the grade 7-12 classroom. Prerequisites: EDCI 5001, EDCI 5002, EDCI 5003, EDCI 5004.
Focuses on developing students' education for sustainability leadership practices and offers tools to transform ourselves and our community. Explores a whole-systems and ecological approach for leading change in complex and emergent times. A core element of this course is the community that will be co-developed through collective work. Prerequisite: EDCI 5043. Co-requisite: EDCI 5044.
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Explores the philosophical and sociological underpinnings of various critical social, decolonial, and anticolonial theories and how they have contributed to educators' pedagogical practice. Course themes include: education as the practice of freedom, the theorization of criticality and critical social theory, critical pedagogies in practice, and youth influence on critical pedagogical practices.