EDD 8821 Curriculum Theory and Design

This course provides a comprehensive overview of curriculum orientations and paradigms, theoretical traditions, and emerging complexities within the field of curriculum studies. This course is designed to develop the theoretical knowledge,competencies, and strategies needed by teachers and other curriculum developers at all levels of education to participate in the curriculum change process.

Credits

3

Typically Offered

Athens and Demorest Campus: In the second spring semester of each new cohort sequence.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Explore the writings of curriculum scholars and theorists in order to examine philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, and political curriculum perspectives. 

2. Explore curriculum development as a field of study and will participate in curriculum inquiry through professional discourse.

3. Refine knowledge and analytical understanding of the relationship among the four main components of instruction - curriculum, teacher, students, and context. 

4. Students' thinking, teaching and decision-making regarding curriculum will be shaped by the concepts of the teacher as a curriculum doer and the principal/administrator as a curriculum leader.  

5. Adopt a curriculum perspective and apply an array of corresponding curriculum tools and processes when developing a project consistent with professional aspirations.