HD/SO/ED 383 - The Power of Socio-Educational Factors in Human Development: A Critical Analysis from the Spanish Context

This course studies human development in a social context marked by rapid social, technological, and ecological change, migratory movements, globalization and generalized forms of inequality. It focuses on topics such as difference, equality, symbolic and developmental processes involved in educational outcomes and socialization in Spanish socio-cultural context. It also reflects on whether education acts as an element that reduces or fosters inequalities in relation to its approach to the vulnerability of categories such as gender, race, social class, disabilities and other variables. This is a course that seeks to promote sustainable human development for all people; and its contents are, therefore, strongly linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Spanish context forms the backdrop for all discussions, the goal of which is to provide students with a contrasting perspective with the social and cultural environment in the US.