EDCI 8650 - Curriculum and Instruction in Contemporary Urban Settings

3 Hours
This course focuses on the complex relationship between schools, the curriculum taught (explicit and hidden) and the larger society of which these are a part. Teacher leaders need to be able to see curriculum and instructional issues within a broad historical and sociopolitical context to understand how policies are intentionally or unintentionally developed, and to comprehend the links between policies and outcomes and its impact on curriculum. This course is designed to undertake an analytic approach to defining, analyzing, and evaluating topics relevant to urban school systems and its teachers, students, and community, and the consequential teaching and learning within all content areas and grade levels. Students will analyze the interplay of curriculum and instruction within the intended and unintended consequences of many processes: ideological, social, judicial, scientific, political, and economic.

Prerequisite(s): None.
Corequisite(s): None.
Pre/Corequisite(s): None.
Requirements: None.