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Individuals in Urban Contexts examines urban residents, with a specific focus on those populations most likely to attend public schools. Students also explore their own position relative to these populations. The course begins with a look at the expression of diversity in urban public school systems, especially around characteristics such as race, class, culture and linguistic status. Students undertake an ethnographically-informed study of the populations with which their Problem of Practice is most concerned, focused on an assets-based understanding of their context. Finally, the course helps students to examine and reflect upon their own position with respect to the identity of these populations and the categories examined in the first part of the course.