EDUC390

French philosopher Michel Foucault said that schools "serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions: to define, classify, control, and regulate people.” We have all spent enough time in schools to understand this sentiment viscerally. Yet, depending on race and other ascribed social identity categories, we have experienced the disciplining potential of schools in starkly different terms. In this course, students examine racial disproportionality in rates of exclusionary discipline and ask how the more recent shift toward restorative approaches impacts black and brown students. Recommended background: EDUC 231.