Course Details

This course critically examines the foundations of curriculum from a critical lens on the field of curriculum. Students study controversial curriculum issues across schools and communities drawing from curriculum theory and policy in lived and specific historical contexts. It starts with the discussion of the history of the field, multiple definitions of curriculum, paradigms, and philosophies and then moves on to wonder about the prospects for the future. Students examine a broad range of historical documents and theoretical essays as they consider essential curriculum questions both in schools and communities.

Outcomes: This course will educate students in historical and philosophical curriculum inquiry across schools and communities; Students explore curriculum issues in real and particular historical, philosophical contexts and apply them to contemporary curriculum discourses.