“I’ve taken more of a historical approach, and it’s really opened my eyes to how much kids don’t know,” says Gamble, who designed his own curriculum in consultation with social-studies colleagues across Indiana.
Educators see it as a way to boost student achievement, especially among students of color, and to broaden curriculum that too often overlooks the rich history of ethnic-minority groups. Over the past few years, at the urging of NEA members and students, an increasing number of school districts and states, including Indiana, are requiring that ethnic-studies courses or curriculum be developed and available to students. In addition to the minor in Native American Studies, these minors can be taken in conjunction with the ES major or minor.When Indiana teacher Joe Gamble attended the high school where he now works, he didn’t have the option of taking an ethnic-studies class that might explore the history of African-Americans, like him, or Native Americans, or other racial and ethnic groups. IRES is for everybody-we don’t just show you the world here, we help you shape it.ĬOVID-Related Student Resources New Minors Fall 2020 - the University of Oregon adds two new minors that draw extensively on IRES course offerings and the expertise of our faculty: Latinx Studies and Black Studies. Whether you want to declare an Ethnic Studies major, a Native Studies/Latinx Studies/Black Studies/Ethnic Studies minor, whether you’re looking to be a doctoral student in our new PhD program, a graduate student from another department enrolled in our graduate certificate program, or just a student looking for an interesting class this term, we invite you to join us.
There is no field where IRES training would be irrelevant, especially as so many institutions reevaluate their practices to plan for more just futures. IRES alumni go on to find employment in many fields- as teachers, tribal council members, professors, educational administrators, non-profit directors, organizers, media producers, social workers, lawyers, and countless other professions. IRES education is world-changing, and it is often through their jobs that IRES alumni are able to do their most transformative work. IRES scholarship remains as urgent as ever, and our faculty, staff, and students continue to work together and with our communities to educate each other and the world, to generate new knowledge, to share established wisdom, and to form strategies to build that beautiful future. These movements are a collective prayer and plan for a beautiful future, and that is at the heart of our work, too. We have to confront those forces with all the determination we can muster, and that’s a central component of our work in IRES.īut we also seek to build a world as we want to see it-full of love, compassion, self-determination, and tender care for all our relations. Whether in the Black Lives Matter movement, the #MMIR movement, electoral politics, or immigration policy reform efforts, we recognize that racism, settler-colonialism, xenophobia, sexism, and queerphobia are still powerful forces shaping our daily lives, sometimes in ways we don’t even see. White supremacy keeps rearing its ugly head, but we keep fighting for our lives.
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