UCLA Education Dept. Focuses on Social Justice and Activism in Courses for Elementary Education

UCLA Education Dept. Focuses on Social Justice and Activism in Courses for Elementary Education

This is social engineering, and it’s one reason so many kids can’t read.

Campus Reform reports:

UCLA education department focuses on social justice and activism in courses for elementary education

The education department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and UCLA Extension focus on “social justice” and “activist roles” as key components of K-12 schools.

In the fall 2026 semester, UCLA offers a number of education courses through a teacher education program that emphasizes social justice.

The UCLA Teacher Education Program “is guided by our mission to ‘provide high quality pre-service education and to radically improve urban schooling for California’s racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse children.’”

Furthermore, students are required to learn in a curriculum that emphasizes “the structural dimensions of inequity; the need for social and political activism; the centrality of multiculturalism; and the vital importance of understanding competing notions of race, culture, and identity.”

The UCLA Education website description for ED 330C: Student Teaching states that “students will be assigned to student teach in designated school sites with racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse student populations…students as novice teachers will plan … daily lessons and units as well as actively engage in reflecting on issues specific to school-community relations.”

The 2025-2026 UCLA Teacher Education Program Handbook goes into more detail about what the education department expects of its students.

The handbook lists four principles, each of which focuses on both “social justice” and making teachers activists. Principle 3 emphasizes that “collaborating with schools, communities, and families is essential for change to occur.”

According to the handout, “teaching has moral, cultural, and political dimensions. Therefore, teachers must assume activist roles and develop strategies to challenge and disrupt inequities that pervade urban schools.”

UCLA Extension also gives education certificates focusing on “social equity” and “anti-bias”.

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