We're still actively developing this site. If you encounter any issues, please report them! - Report an issue

SMR: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RESEARCH & EVALUATION IN CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION

CURRIC 916
Course Description

In the past few decades, social thought and philosophy have provided alternative arguments and styles of reasoning in thinking about the history and sciences of education. Explores readings and the importance of this literature to education is in multiple layers; provides ways of thinking about difference outside of theories of representation and identity; embodies ways of engaging the knowledge of science and the political in schooling; provides alternative strategies for discourse analyses; problematizes the givenness of the subject of schooling as the object of change; (re)vises notions of materialism and power in understanding the effects of schooling; provides ways of thinking about knowledge and language as not merely an epiphenomena to structures; and historically explores the limits of theories of practice that are given as what is real and useful.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.33

1.5% from Historical

Completion Rate
83.33%

1.27% from Historical

A Rate
83.33%

2.65% from Historical

Class Size
12

-20.3% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

Sorted by ratings from Rate My Professors

Similar Courses

REFORM AND CHANGE IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

CURRIC 716

Social, political and epistemological assumptions underlying current efforts towards curriculum and instructional reform in elementary and secondary schools.

SEMINAR-SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

EDPOL/SOC 908

Selected topics.

CRITICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING, SCHOOLING, AND EDUCATION

CURRIC 240

Investigates aspects of social justice and equity as they relate to teaching, schooling, and education.

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION PARADIGMS IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

CURRIC 714

An analysis of differing orientations to evaluation and research. Emphasis on assumptions, attitudes, and expectations of what constitutes scientific knowledge and explanation; relationship of research orientation, methods of inquiry, theory, and practice.

SCHOOL AND SOCIETY

EDPOL 300

Focuses on the interplay between schools and society by examining societal and cultural influences on school processes, policies, practices, and pedagogy; or, how society shapes schooling, and conversely, the ways in which schools assist in shaping society. Reflect on the purposes of schools and how these purposes have shifted over time. Examines how assumptions regarding the purposes of schooling interact with debates over how we teach, what we teach, and how we evaluate schools, teachers, and students. Identify the foundations of education in the United States and critically examine the ways in which educational practices and policies impact the lives of students.