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Centre for Distance Education

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Faculty of Education

Simon Fraser University

WMC 1300 291-3524

PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN CURRICULUM

Examines fundamental philosophical issues involved in designing, evaluating, or changing

educational curricula. Such issues as the nature and justification of educational curriculum, the

components of a rational curriculum, the nature of knowledge and its differentiation, curriculum

integration and the education of the emotions. Also deals with such current issues as the place of

"behavioral objectives" in education, the "hidden curriculum" and the sociology of knowledge.

Unit Topics:

Unit 1 ?

Language Matters

Unit 2 ?

Schooling

Unit 3

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Teaching and Learning

Unit 4 ?

Learning How to Learn

Unit

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Educating the Emotions

Unit 6

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Creativity

PREREQUISITE: ?

60 credit hours.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Unit 7

Moral Education

Unit 8

Nature of Knowledge

Unit 9

Critical Thinking

Unit 10

Value of Empirical

Classroom Research

Unit 11

Developmental Theory

Unit 12

Giftedness and Erroneous

Educational Assumptions

Barrow, R.

Understanding Skills.

Aithouse Press. 1992.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

Mandatory but ungraded.

25%

30%

25%

20%

istration Timetable.

Assignment 1 (Essay)

Assignment 2 (Written Assignment)

Assignment 3 (Essay)

Assignment 4 (Written Assignment)

Final Exam*

*please see Exam Schedule in Re

SUPPLEMENTARY FEES:

Course Materials & Service Fee ?

$30

Deposit for Additional Materials ?

$25

11/07/02