{"id":66594,"date":"2021-10-28T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&p=66594"},"modified":"2023-06-21T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:29:32","slug":"new-undergraduate-program-emphasizes-equity","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/magazine\/articles\/2021\/new-undergraduate-program-emphasizes-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"New Undergraduate Program Emphasizes Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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How could BU Wheelock reimagine its programs to help address some of the most pressing issues in education\u2014and attract more students? After examining that question for the past two years, a BU Wheelock task force has hit upon at least one major change for the college: an overhaul of its undergraduate program, highlighted by a new BS in education and human development<\/a> that began this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe really focused on equity across the education, legal, and healthcare systems,\u201d says Linda Banks-Santilli<\/a>, associate dean for academic affairs. \u201c\u2018System changers\u2019 is the term we\u2019ve been using: We\u2019re trying to prepare a different type of professional who recognizes structural inequities and how they\u2019re affecting children and families, and works to eliminate them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new program replaces all 10 of the college\u2019s prior undergraduate offerings (only two of the previous programs, math education and science education, will continue to support minors in partnership with the College of Arts & Sciences). Undergraduates in their first two years will now balance core courses, like Intro to Human Development and Anti-Oppressive Practices: Education & Applied Psychology, with interdisciplinary signature courses, like Introduction to Justice Based Education. Then they\u2019ll choose one of five pathways: Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Deaf Studies, Educational Design for Transformative Social Futures, Teaching & Learning, or Youth Development & Justice. Students interested in additional teacher education and licensure can earn a fifth-year master\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was a teacher for 12 years in Boston, but I didn\u2019t have the opportunity in my teacher preparation program, at the time, to take a course in how systems designed to help youth\u2014educational, legal, economic, health\u2014sometimes work against them,\u201d Banks-Santilli says. \u201cThis program provides a broader education for professionals so they can begin to think and act in new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How could BU Wheelock reimagine its programs to help address some of the most pressing issues in education\u2014and attract more students? After examining that question for the past two years, a BU Wheelock task force has hit upon at least one major change for the college: an overhaul of its undergraduate program, highlighted by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9090,"featured_media":55890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[],"bu-publication":[6613],"magazine-article-category":[],"magazine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[6618],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/66594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/66594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66929,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/66594\/revisions\/66929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-category?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=66594"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=66594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}