Teaching Interests
Oakes also teaches Ph.D. elective courses focused on education policy and the struggle for schooling equality.
Current Academic Year Courses
Education 279: History of Urban Schools
Education 279 is a foundations course in the Urban Schooling Ph.D. program. It surveys the major events, political and economic forces, and ideas that shaped urban schools and classrooms in the 20th century; examines scholarship on the history of urban schooling across a range of political/ideological perspectives; enages with primary documents and artifacts that influenced 20th century urban school policy and practice; and explores the historical roots of the current crisis of urban schooling in the state and nation.
Education 406: Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in American Education
Education 406 is a Masters-level course in the Center X Teacher Education Program. It focuses on the role of cultural diversity in US schooling, and what this means for educators oriented toward social justice. It explores a variety of theoretical perspectives on the impact of deep seated norms about race, class, culture, and language on the schooling and social opportunities and outcomes for low-income students of color in US schools.
Links
UCLA's Institute for Democracy Education & Access (IDEA) UC All Campus Consortium on Research for Democracy (ACCORD) Visit IDEA's on-line journal College Access Project for African Americans (CAPAA)
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