What is curriculum design?
Thoughtful curriculum design requires a skeptical view of knowledge and communication, encouraging questions to complicate and examine assumptions underlying what we claim is important to know. To provoke a different relationship to knowledge, curriculum designers encourage questions, examine decisions, and negotiate new responses. Curriculum designers can use ideas to inform design by asking questions such as: What are the ideas about the world, knowledge, teaching, and learning that I will draw on? How might those ideas ground the curriculum? What are the implications for what I teach and how I teach it?
What We DoOur work looks within and beyond formal schooling to examine assumptions about who students are, who teachers can be, where education takes place, and what is considered knowledge and important to understand. This project is an experimental space to promote dialogue about more public approaches to curriculum design.
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