Education, Knowledge, and Curriculum (EDST 403)
This course presents the link between education, knowledge, and curriculum and how these two cannot be disconnected from ideas about knowledge and truth. While discussing such issues as knowledge and truth, and addressing the types of knowledge, “whose knowledge” and “what knowledge”, teacher candidates will get the opportunity to reflect on some of the following critical questions:
- Can teachers teach anything that is absolutely true, or only what hasn’t been proven false yet?
- Since no school can teach everything there is to know in the world, what choices are made about the knowledge that is included in and excluded from the curriculum?
- What knowledge has been considered of most worth, and how has this shaped curriculum decisions?
- How do Aboriginal conceptions of knowledge and truth differ from European conceptions, and what conceptions of knowledge and truth do people hold elsewhere in the world?
- How do teacher candidates benefit from understanding such issues? How does this impact their profession?
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