EDUC 241Theoretical Frameworks for Research in Education
Education · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Examination of diverse set of foundational theories for educational researchers concerned with understanding, designing, and studying transformative, culturally sustaining, and democratic educational practices. Includes both founding parents and neo perspectives in emancipatory/liberatory pedagogy, sociocultural/sociohistorical activity theory, critical race theory, cultural modeling/culturally sustaining pedagogy and contributions from learning sciences, indigenous, post-colonial, sociological, political-economic, and anthropological approaches to educational research. Attends both to original ideas and how they have changed over time, as well as how faculty in the Urban Schooling program draw on these frameworks for their research.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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