•IMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Session 2000

EDUC 471 -4

Dr. Susan Gerof sky

Curriculum Development:

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Office: TBA

Theory and Practice

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Phone: 291-3395

Wednesdays & Fridays 13:00-16:50 ?

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E-mail: gerofsky@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

60 credit hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, we will look at curriculum as educational practice based on views of the learner,

knowledge, culture, society and the self. Both the K-to-12 BC school curriculum and other,

alternative forms of curriculum will be our focus. We will explore topics such as the history of

curriculum development, differences between "complex" and "complicated" theories of learning,

the prescribed versus the experienced curriculum, and what is included and excluded from a

curriculum depending on its developers' theoretical views. We will look at a variety of narratives

about classroom experiences and interpret them in terms of their roots in curriculum theory. In

all our study of curriculum theory, we will consider the implications for us as teachers in our

everyday practice as creators of living curriculum.

PURPOSE

This course should allow students to understand a broad range of ideas in curriculum

development, and bring new insights to their own curriculum theories and practice.

EVALUATION

Grading will be based on written assignments and class presentations.

REQUIRED READING

Davis, B., Sumara, D. & Luce-Kapler, R. (2000). Engaging Minds: Learning and Teaching in a

Complex World. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (ISBN: 0-8058-3785-X)

EDUC 471 (D02.00) Custom Courseware Package