Curriculum Studies EDL 665-800

  What are the main themes across the readings?  How do these readings expose the structure and history of curriculum and ideas regarding how to rethink it? What do the readings reveal about the role that politics, identity, power, and place play in the design and selection of curriculum?    Synthesize the history to the present of what you are learning about curriculum.  The two readings this week were very engaging for me as the themes were focused on stepping outside of the norm, being creative, and learning in the process. Powell and Lajevic shared research on the impact that pre-service art teachers had on themselves and their community by reconceptualizing their curriculum. Curriculum became lived as it organically grew out of place, relationships, and being connected. It was not a hidden curriculum, but rather a curriculum that was created each day together with students. The curriculum was culturally responsive which sparked student interest in the ...

  Teaching in the Cracks Chapters 1 & 2 Presentation Link : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TW-OGK9ZBIU3WtlC-QoNkBA393PLIgszN0L1aGc5fIw/edit?usp=sharing 

  What are the main themes across the readings? Institutionalized Text of Curriculum Curriculum Processes (Policy, Teachers, Students) Curriculum Ideologies: Religious Orthodoxy, Rational Humanism, Progressivism, Critical Theory, Reconconceptulism, Cognitive Pluralism  Hidden Curriculums Various Ideologies How do these readings expose the structure and history of curriculum and ideas regarding how to rethink it ? Conceptualization is an extremely valuable contribution to understanding any phenomenon. Contextualizing is ways of thinking, explaining, and noting details.  Conceptualizing allows us to distinguish between fact and skill knowledge and as useful questions. teaching content...knowing how and knowing that Four uses of school learning: replicative: repeat/remember what was learned (most teaching and learning used this way) associative: linking knowledge or experiences  applicative: used in problem solving (ex. engineer), requires creativity and flexibility i...

Exposing and Reconceptualizing the Curriculum Vallance (1973 ) Hiding the Hidden Curriculum: An Interpretation of the language of justification in nineteenth-century Education Reform Vallance shares a thoughtful reflection on 19th Century Education Reform and the Hidden Curriculum. Vallance shares that hidden curriculums have been around since the beginning of schooling and that 19th Century educational- rhetoric led to the establishment of hidden curriculums. She states that because it has been around for so long and embedded in the ideals of schooling that hidden curriculums (while debated) cannot just disappear, but rather that we should aim to understand hidden curriculum so that we can make improvements to education.  In her discussions, Vallance alludes to the Scholarly Academic curriculum ideology . Her descriptions of each time period detail the purposes of education and hidden curriculums within each period.    Vallance provides an o...

  How did you conceptualize curriculum as a K-12 student? as an undergrad? as a teacher? in your current role? How is your conceptualization of curriculum changes as a result of the readings and discussions in this course? I think I have conceptualized curriculum differently across my years in education. The context or environment including location as well as the teacher played a huge role in how and what I was taught. I first began to conceptualize curriculum in my masters program, which led to me conceptualizing curriculum in my daily work. Now, I am digging deeper into the ideologies, theories, ideas and concept of other which leaders to deeper learning as suggested by Joseph. I am not scared to ask prompting question. It could be my age though.LOL.  How would you describe our current curricular ideals in schools - specifically, what are the explicit curricula? the implicit or "hidden" curricula? the null curricula? I think currently curriculum ideals in sch...

  All three Entry 2 articles have the purpose of defining curriculum, curriculum theory, and the historical development of curriculum/curriculum theory. All articles describe curriculum as an ever changing and intricate process or theory with many considerations. Curriculum is described as "statements" in each article stating that the statements change constantly. As an educator for the past 22 year I have seen many overlaps in how curriculum is thought of in schools and how curriculum is used and even how it is changed. Moreover, I was able to make many connections to the content in the texts.  I wonder if schools continue to operate in the ways they do because there is really not yet a deep understanding of curriculum theory and how it has been applied over the years. Moreover, schools/districts seem to go with the flow and change with the change of educational movements and theories over time. I see and work for companies to review curricu...