FSEM 182   The American School

Faculty Profile for Professor Rios-Rojas

Students consider critical questions regarding public education. Who should teach? Who should be taught? Who controls the curriculum? Who should decide these issues? How can schools be transformed to provide socially just education for all students? Why does the United States have a public education system and how does it compare to other countries? Students are asked to think about their own educational experience and how that is the same as or different from that of other students in the United States. This class is discussion based—students come to class with the material read and in class we think together about the author’s meaning and how a particular theorist may answer the above questions as well as how the theorist under consideration connects to your own experience. Students who successfully complete this seminar earn credit for EDUC 101 and can satisfy the social relations, institutions, and agents area of inquiry requirement or the confronting collective challenges liberal arts practice requirement.

Anna Rios-Rojas is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies. Her research interests include anthropologies of education; immigration, globalization, and comparative/international education; “race” and representation as it relates to issues of equity and access in education; youth identity formation/construction in “new” diasporas; Latina/ Third World feminist epistemologies education; critical ethnography; and social and cultural foundations of education.