Exploring and Contesting Curriculum

• • Is curriculum just a document?
  • Enacting power and values through curriculum
  • The educator's philosophy
  • The third teacher
  • Introducing learner diversity
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Socio-economic disadvantage and the virtual schoolbag
  • Australia's history and cultures
  • Indigenous educational justice
  • Childhood, technology and consumerism
  • The official curricula, planning and assessment

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-EDC111-Exploring and Contesting Curriculum
• CUR-EDC140C-Exploring and Contesting Curriculum

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject was previously known as EDC111 Exploring and Contesting Curriculum.

This subject provides an introduction to the idea of curriculum including key terms, alternative models of curriculum and the processes and products of curriculum. Specific areas covered include: socio-cultural perspectives of curricula; curriculum integration; the development of early learning and school-based curricula; and the way in which teachers use curriculum documents for planning. This subject provides an introduction to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum.

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• Report (50%)
• Case Study (50%)