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Being Influential: Urban Education Partnership Program

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Being Influential: Urban Education Partnership Program

The Urban Education Partnership Program is a collaborative community-based school and university partnership that aims to connect teacher candidates from the Faculty of Education with selected schools in socioeconomically challenged urban communities in Windsor.

Targeting culturally diverse schools in areas considered working class and poor, the program aims to establish equity for student achievement, develop curriculum specifically for teacher candidates who will be working in those schools and to conduct research that will help generate local knowledge that is “context-specific” for places such as Windsor—which according to Statistics Canada is the fourth-most culturally diverse city in the country.

The faculty offers an urban education option for teacher candidates in the Faculty of Education.

The current coordinator Professor Aamer Shujah, Faculty of Education, said “the program focuses on issues of equity, diversity and social justice in the classroom,” and “is aimed at improving resource access and opportunity for Windsor’s urban school communities in order to empower children from across all socio-economic and culture spectrums.”

Future research and scholarship in Urban Education will help to develop localized knowledge and best practices to continue to address the unique needs of schools and communities in the Windsor and Essex County area, he said.

 

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