REFORM AND CHANGE IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

CURRIC 712

Become familiar with faculty, procedures, policy, and the wide range of research in curriculum and instruction.

CURRIC 704

The concept of curriculum in modern American education.

EDPOL 870

Analysis of several social theories emphasizing the explanation of social change, the role of education in the change process, and the implications for educational policy in contemporary society.

CURRIC 916

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.

CURRIC 276

Introduction to current practices and issues in K-12 school systems as they relate specifically to educational inequality, the concept of "educational debt," and the role of teachers and administrators in system change. Encourages future educators to think critically about these issues while preparing them to serve in culturally and socio-economically diverse schools.