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Fall Semester 2004

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Prerequisite

60 Credit Hours

Course Description

In British Columbia, the purposes of education, the ends to be achieved in teaching, and

the strategies that might be employed to pursue them are prescribed or at least strongly

indicated by the Mission Statement for Schools and the Integrated Resource Packages

published by the Ministry of Education. The content and methods of instruction that

teachers might choose are further constrained by the forms of evaluation that students

will experience at the end of their courses. Provincial examinations, for example, are an

incentive for teachers to stay close to the kind of content that will appear on the exams

and to use methods consistent with learning it. Nevertheless, teachers must choose among

the prescribed ends because they cannot teach all that is listed, and they must adapt

suggested teaching methods to local conditions. As teachers go about planning their

lessons, then, they must at least be able to choose wisely. This course will provide

prospective and practicing teachers with the theoretical and practical ideas that will allow

them to do both, develop educational curricula and to choose well when faced with

curricula developed by others. It will also provide them with the theoretical framework to

comment on the merits of curriculum proposals that are presented to them during their

teaching careers.

Assignments

1.

Three Discussion Papers...............................

75%

2.

Final Examination........................................25%

Required Readings

Barrow, Robin. (1985).

Giving Teaching back to teachers: A critical introduction to

curriculum theory.

Toronto, ONT: The Althouse Press. ISBN:

0-920354-13-0

Beyer, Landon E & Apple, Michael W. (1998).

The Curriculum: Problems, politics,

and possibilities.

State University of New York Press.

ISBN: 0-7914-3810-4