Curriculum Studies EDL 665-800

  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...