Restriction(s): Admission to the graduate school, admission to the MEd in Teaching for Equity and Justice. An examination of the social, conceptual and theoretical traditions and practices that inform and shape access of diverse populations of students to success in schools. Theoretically informed foci and pedagogies such as—but not limited to—multicultural education, bilingual education, culturally responsive pedagogy, critical pedagogy, anti-racism pedagogy, inclusive pedagogies, liberatory pedagogy, pedagogies of resistance, student/teacher well-being pedagogies, and social justice education will be discussed. This course examines the historical and ongoing relationships between culture, society, teaching, and learning, as well as between contemporary teacher/school ideologies and belief systems.