{"id":65917,"date":"2022-12-19T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=65917"},"modified":"2023-08-30T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T02:48:24","slug":"new-masters-program-explores-education-for-equity-and-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/new-masters-program-explores-education-for-equity-and-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"New Master\u2019s Program Explores Education for Equity and Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-flip has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-secondary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"496\" height=\"699\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"Collage of face profile cut outs\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586.png 496w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586-426x600.png 426w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586-244x344.png 244w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586-375x529.png 375w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586-484x682.png 484w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/12\/EdM-In-Education-for-Equity-Social-Justice--e1681933690586-488x688.png 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Master&#039;s Programs<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew Master\u2019s Program Explores Education for Equity and Social Justice\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">December 19, 2022<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/authors\/finn-gardiner\/\">Finn Gardiner<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>In the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death and the racial reckoning that followed, universities, businesses, and other institutions in the United States reexamined their attitudes toward race, ethnicity, and culture. Many of them\u2014including Boston University\u2014reaffirmed their commitment to supporting racial equity. The increased attention to racial disparities and systemic injustices spurred <a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/felicity-crawford\/\">Felicity Crawford<\/a>, a clinical associate professor of special education, to collaborate with several teams across BU to develop a new master\u2019s degree program that equips educators and other professionals to create a more just, equitable world.&nbsp; An interdisciplinary program that can be taken fully online, the <a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/z-old-website-structure\/academics\/graduate\/edm\/edm-in-education-for-equity-social-justice\/\">EdM in Education for Equity &amp; Social Justice<\/a> is geared toward educators and other working professionals who want to challenge biases, defy stereotypes, and dismantle oppression through their work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaking room for a range of perspectives and seeking an accurate account of history through an evidence-based approach to learning should allow people in positions of authority to make fewer unjustified assumptions about children\u2019s capabilities,\u201d says Crawford. We spoke to her to learn more about what students can expect from the new master\u2019s program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a news-block-editorial-q-and-a has-secondary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title-heading\">Q<span>&amp;<\/span>A<\/h2><h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-title-subheading\"><\/h4><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Question:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">What led to the creation of the EdM for Education for Equity &amp; Social Justice, and what need do you think the degree program fulfills?&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Crawford:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">The public assassination of George Floyd under color of law laid bare the perniciousness of racism and the unequal treatment of minoritized people in the United States. These outcomes didn\u2019t occur in isolation\u2014they occurred within systems of inequity that have been carefully constructed for generations. Floyd\u2019s murder also represents the collective failure of trusted institutions\u2014of which schools of education are a part\u2014to uphold one of the self-evident truths on which our Constitution was based, which is equality.&nbsp;<br><br>Given the enormousness of the problem I just described, it\u2019s important that educators get the interdisciplinary expertise to understand the issues in all their complexities. Our much-maligned educational system, which has performed remarkably under the most challenging circumstances, could do an even better job in ensuring that it does not reproduce the biases in society at large. Graduates of our program will have the skills to identify and interrogate policies and laws for evidence of bias, and through their research rectify these inequities, wherever they exist, whether intentional or inadvertent. They will also be able to develop data-informed solutions to present disparities, wherever they persist.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Question:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">How do you think this new master\u2019s program will enhance people\u2019s knowledge of social justice, equity, and inclusion?&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Crawford:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">There\u2019s an uneven distribution of resources that creates and sustains inequity. Black children and other children of color are routinely excluded from opportunities and resources. This pervasive inequality has created an expanding list of gaps, such as gaps in wealth, gaps in housing, gaps in health, gaps in finance, gaps in education, and gaps in mortality.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Crawford:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">We designed this program to help educators, policymakers, and other professionals learn how to address the consequences of systemic inequity that come along with invidious discrimination against excluded groups. They should have ready access to relevant scholarship on these issues.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Question:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">How do you think students can take what they will learn and apply it in real-world situations as teachers or counselors?&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Crawford:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">This program will help educators to construct their understanding of how, for example, intergenerational trauma is transmitted or how chronic stress leads to pathology. The interdisciplinary model we have developed really gives us ways to consider how we might collaborate with constituents within and outside education to mitigate the impact of the social determinants of health on children\u2019s learning.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-question\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Question:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">How did you and your team choose the curriculum? What pedagogical and ethical principles guided your decisions?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-answer\"><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-name\">Crawford:<\/span> <span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">We developed a curriculum based on our understanding that there are gross social and structural inequities, for example, asymmetric funding of schools; criminalization of normal childhood behaviors driven by stereotypical propensities ascribed to these populations; racialized policing and the consequent incarceration of victims in private prisons; and the unregulated and unvalidated use of questionable and biased algorithms in employment and in teacher evaluations. 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