Section Info: EDUST-250CW-01

Course Title: Special Topics in Educational Studies: 'Storytelling and Play: Learning from Children's Works'

Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026

Term: Spring Semester 2026

Description: This course explores play and storytelling as sources of meaning-making, community building, and pedagogical insight. Drawing from psychology, disability studies, anthropology, Black feminist thought, Indigenous worldviews, and educational frameworks, students will examine how play shapes development and challenges dominant paradigms. Through theoretical study and empirical data, we will explore how children's stories illuminate social issues, and how educators and researchers can respond with care, creativity, and justice-oriented practice. We will also investigate how play functions in adult learning, collective well-being, and community building.

Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Kushya Sugarman		ksugarman@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026	Lecture	Monday and Wednesday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	REES - Reese	110	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

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Cross-listed Sections

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 28	Enrollment: 28	Available: 0	Waitlist: 2

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.