Foundations: Curriculum (EDUC91317)

This subject explores the function of curriculum and its relationship to purposes of education, teaching content and knowledge expectations of learners in a rapidly changing world. Various levels of curriculum interpretation and enactment will be considered, including diverse settings where learning occurs, extending beyond conventional school systems to include a variety of educational communities and environments and individual teacher levels.

We investigate curriculum models, theories and approaches to discourses, reforms, debates, influences, issues emergent trends to apply and integrate into practice. The ways that curriculum, knowledge, and learning address the relationships between society, knowledge, pedagogy, practice, and assessment are explored.

We critically reflect on relationships between the enacted curriculum, curriculum theory and professional practices, primarily through the lens of students’ planned area of specialisation.

For Master of Education students, this subject provides preparation for the Creativity and the Arts, Literacies and English, and Mathematics and Science Education specialisations.