Course overview
This course aims to develop critical perspectives on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and an understanding of their relationships to democratic participation and an inclusive society. Students will critically analyse how curriculum, in alignment with pedagogy and assessment, reproduces and/or transforms schools and society. The course enables students to critically analyse concepts of knowledge and social justice and apply these to specific contexts as they build knowledge through inquiry and dialogue.
- Curriculum
- Pedagogy
- Democratising Curriculum
Course learning outcomes
- Articulate a theorised account of democratic curriculum
- Explain the role of curriculum in the reproduction and/or transformation of society
- Apply concepts of curricular justice to analyse curricular, pedagogical and assessment practices
- Critically analyse the forms of knowledge evident in contemporary classrooms and schools
Availability
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 24016
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 28
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 24152
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 68503
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 1
Class number 68822
Section 02OL
Size 30
Available 1
Class number 68880
Section 03OL
Size 30
Available 7
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 88070
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 26
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 88072
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 21
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 88071
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 12
Online
Group 1
Class number 88069
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 27
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