Doctor of Education in International and Multicultural Education - Racial Justice and Education

University of San Francisco

Understand education within diverse sociocultural, linguistic, political, and economic contexts. Acquire skills you need in scholarship, teaching, and advocacy. Our program equips you with the skills needed to engage in scholarship, teaching and advocacy work that addresses many of the key issues impacting education today. Rooted in the practice of critical pedagogy, this program provides a dynamic learning community where students benefit from rigorous experience both in the classroom and in the community. We believe that IME’s conceptual framework and pedagogy serve to equip students in becoming leaders capable of reimagining possibilities for education in multiple contexts.Graduates of the Ed. D. program will be able to-Demonstrate a nuanced and integrative knowledge of human rights education and activism race and ethnic studies and language and culture.Identify, describe and critique critical social theory critical and decolonizing pedagogies theories of race, gender and intersectionality.Identify and employ methodological tools based in critical approaches to quantitative and qualitative research methods with a focus on community engaged scholarship. Describe and apply alternative paradigms, such as participatory action research, teacher action research, testimonio, and critical ethnography.Synthesize contextual understandings, reflective analysis, theoretical frameworks, and methodological training to produce a doctoral dissertation. Design and conduct research that contributes new knowledge to the academic field.