Multicultural Education Program

Florida Atlantic UniversityDepartment of Curriculum, Culture

and Educational Inquiry

Department of Curriculum, Culture and Educational Inquiry

Program Areas:• Multicultural Education• TESOL/Bilingual Education• Early Childhood Education• Curriculum & Instruction

Research & Scholarship Interests:• Multiculturalism in Teacher Education• Internationalization• Second Language Acquisition• Professional Development• Critical Literacy• Immigrant Education• Family Literacy• Arts Integration• Early Childhood Curriculum• Environmentalism• Human Rights Education• Second Language Acquisition

• Bahrain• Belize• Brazil• England• Germany• Haiti• Italy

• Malaysia• Mexico• Morocco• Poland• Sri Lanka• Turkey

Professional Experience:

Multicultural Education Program

Support educators’ success– Multiculturalism– Equity for all students– Social Justice

Educators as leaders in a variety of contexts

Multiple levels of impact at the classroom, school, district, state level and beyond

Why a Degree in Multicultural Education?

• Effective educator of ALL students• Professional success in South

Florida• Versatile degree• Preparation for doctoral work• Community-oriented research

Sample Courses

Core Courses:• Seminar in Multicultural Education• Black Perspectives in Education• Foundations of Multicultural Education• Race, Class and Gender issues in Education• Action Research in Schools and Communities• Educational Statistics/Research

ESOL Endorsement:• Applied Linguistics and

TESOL• Methods of Teaching

TESOL/BE• Assessment Issues for

ESOL and Bilingual Populations

• Curriculum Development in TESOL/BE

Content Specialization:• Early Childhood

Education• Curriculum and

Instruction• Global Education• Dual Language

Instruction

“I lucked out by finding this program - it truly changed my life.”

From Students

“I left on an intellectual high after each class. I have not met many people like the professors I’ve had in this program.”

“It has squashed any ideas I had of what I wanted to do and made me question everything and want to do more.”

Other Programs in CCEI Department

• M.A. in T.E.S.O.L./Bilingual Education

• M.Ed. In Curriculum and Instruction

• M.Ed. In Early Childhood Education

• Ph.D. and Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction

For Additional InformationProgram Information• Dr. Dilys Schoorman

Email: dschoorm@fau.edu Phone: 561.297.6598

Admissions process information:• Lizeth Garcia (Senior Secretary)

Email: lgarci18@fau.edu Phone: 561.297.6598

Online Sources• Website: www.coe.fau.edu/academicdepartments/ccei/• Facebook: www.facebook.com/fauCCEI