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ED52024: Curriculum studies

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Education
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Modular - no specific semester
Assessment Summary: CWSI 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • An Analysis or Design of a Programme of Study. (CWSI 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, students will be able to: Demonstrate critical understanding of the relationship between approaches to curriculum, and approaches to pedagogy, and approaches to learning Critically discuss concepts, assumptions and functions of a curriculum within a society or a learning community Identify gaps between the stated purposes, the implicit purposes, and the outcomes of the curriculum Critically examine evaluation approaches and their assumptions to the curriculum Critically relate the curriculum to student assessment approaches Demonstrate critical understanding of the development of the curriculum in wider political, economic, historical social and cultural frameworks


Synopsis: Enhance your understanding of the development and implementation of the curriculum. You will study various pedagogical traditions and theoretical approaches, and look at different educational contexts and levels. Throughout the unit, you will identify and discuss key contemporary debates and their assumptions on the curriculum, locating them within specific subject disciplines.

Content: This unit engages students with the following topics: Relationship between curriculum, pedagogy, learning, didactics (SDG 4) The Tyler model and deriving approaches in the Anglosphere to the design and evaluation of the curriculum (SDG 4) Continental approaches to pedagogy and didactics (SDG 4) Critical theory perspective and the hidden, formal, and informal curriculum (SDG 4, 5, 10, 16) Neo-institutional perspective, the role of culture and ideology and the decoupling between formal and enacted curriculum (SDG 4, 5, 10, 16) Phenomenological perspectives and student experiences (SDG 4) Decolonial perspective and the recognition of indigenous and non-western pedagogies (SDG 4, 5, 10, 16) Contemporary curriculum debates and pedagogical debates in specific areas of knowledge (SDG 4, 10, 16)

Course availability:

ED52024 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Education

ED52024 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Education

Notes:

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