Магистратура
2020/2021
Теория содержания образования
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Педагогическое образование)
Направление:
44.04.01. Педагогическое образование
Кто читает:
Институт образования
Где читается:
Институт образования
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 3 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Преподаватели:
Смирнова Наталья Викторовна
Прогр. обучения:
Педагогическое образование
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course aids the master students in analyzing and interpreting the curriculum and instruction programs of educational institutions via the lens of the curriculum theories. The participants will learn how to be reflective, ethically responsive, professionally knowledgeable, collaborative, and communicative practitioners who are able to demonstrate leadership.
Learning Objectives
- The course is designed to provide master students with the knowledges to become perceptive and inquiring educators.
- The participants will learn various theories behind the curriculum development and design, recognize philosophical orientations and be able to translate their broad perspective of curriculum knowledge into theoretical curricular frameworks, as well as to solve problems and implement changes.
- A modern educational practitioner has to know and apply the broad curriculum knowledge (theories, development, processes) and engage in thoughtful leadership in the necessary curriculum decisions
Expected Learning Outcomes
- use theories to examine philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, and political orientations in curriculum development
- demonstrate analytical understanding of the relationship among the four components – curriculum, teacher, students, and context
- develop an understanding how to shift from being the teacher as a curriculum doer as a curriculum leader
Course Contents
- What is curriculum and the field of curriculum studies
- What counts as knowledge?
- Curriculum as content and product
- Curriculum as Process and Development
- Curriculum development, change, and control. The politicization of the school curriculum
- Curriculum evaluation. National and ‘international’ standards in education
Assessment Elements
- In-class participationFor each seminar, you can earn points by completing the small writing tasks before the seminars and at the seminars. The tasks you will see in Schoology. There is a deadline for your answers, which will be the end of the day before the seminar. For example, if your seminar is scheduled on 15th January, the deadline for uploading a homework is 14th January, 23:55.
- Final examThe written proposal should not exceed 10 pages and show grow out of your professional practice. It should include the following elements: • Focus: What is the problem that drives your curriculum project development? • Context: What roots does your project have in the history of curriculum? • Curriculum theory: How does your projects relate to a particular body of the curriculum theory literature? Why? • Related literature: What body of literature on curriculum change, planning, evaluation, etc. does your project relate? • Discussion: What conclusions can be drawn based upon the literature? What questions and gaps still remain? What next steps can be taken? What applications can be made to classroom practice? • Bibliography page (APA style)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- The Primary Curriculum : Learning from International Perspectives, edited by Linda Hargreaves, and Janet Moyles, Taylor & Francis Group, 1998. ProQuest Ebook Central,
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Key concepts for understanding curriculum, Marsh, C. J., 2009