Unit Code: EDU821

Unit Name: Advanced Curriculum and Instruction

Description: The course comprises three sections that will enable students to reflect on their own philosophy of education and their own teaching in light of their understanding of current curriculum philosophies and practices. Section 1: Curriculum and Assessment Theory examines major curriculum practices and ideas and the implications of these for the development of curriculum subjects and contents; standards and standardization; and assessment and testing. What i?s your view of curriculum, what the content should be, how people learn it, who should decide? This is the focus of the first segment. Section 2: Curriculum and Teaching in Use examines the relationship between curriculum and teaching. How should the curriculum be taught? What i?s the relationship of curriculum to instruction? What does it mean to be a teacher and become a teacher? Section 3: Curriculum Reforms explores large-scale and self-initiated educational reforms that include case studies of selected countries. This enables students to critically examine their own context in relation to other education systems.

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Prerequisite: None

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 30

Offered In: Semester 1