EDUC& 150 - Child, Family and Community

3 Credits

This course will explore the impacts of family culture, socialization, and historical systems of oppression on children’s development. Students will examine strategies for partnering with families, tools for effective communication, and develop community resource connections that support the diversity of families and opportunities to address systemic barriers that impact families.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Summer Evening, Online, Weekend

Designed to Serve Professional-technical students in early childhood certificate and degree programs as well as current teachers and providers in the field.
Active Date 20260408T14:55:36

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 36
Contact Hours: Lecture 33
Total Contact Hours 33
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
ProfTech Related Instruction

Human Relations

PLA Eligible Yes

Course Outline

Exploration of diverse families and local demographics
Family, school, and community as agents of learning and socialization and benefits of continuity and partnerships
Engagement strategies and tools
- communication in cultural contexts
- culturally responsive collaboration and partnership strategies
- problem solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution
Community programs and resources
- Connecting families to programs and resources
- Professional code of ethics including family confidentiality

Student Learning Outcomes
Explain how historical, cultural, and social issues affect relationships between schools, children, families, schools and communities.

Analyze how family, school, peers, media and community can disrupt harmful cycles of socialization through anti-bias/anti-racist teaching practices and partnership strategies.

Identify culturally sustaining and trauma-informed strategies to build collaborative, supportive relationships with diverse families, cognizant of teachers’ identities, family culture, and lived experiences.

Identify community resources, services and agencies that can support. the needs of children and families.

Examine the community cultural wealth and social inequities impacting families.