You may like to choose one of the following questions for your final assignment. A question from these lists shouldn’t be answered by more than two individuals. It is the responsibility of the candidate to consult other groups and avoid repetition.
- Based on your readings, discuss how Western perspectives such as Platonic heritages and objective epistemologists influenced the idea of knowledge. Compare these views with the idea of educational psychologists and/or radical epistemologists. Use the references from your course syllabus. If you quote directly from the references, please refer to the APA Reference tools. All sources including internet citations and class lectures should be acknowledged and be part of the reference list.
- What do we mean by Other ways of knowing? How do they differ from Western perspectives? Do indigenous ways of knowing the world belong to other ways of knowing? Why do we need to include other ways of knowing in education and curriculum and why do we regard them as knowledge and part of education? You may use references, discussions and online videos in from the course syllabus in developing your reference in addition to your library searches.
- What are the benefits, challenges, and limitations of teaching in the digital age? How do the digital era and the development of information technology impact teaching and learning? What will be the role of teachers in educating learners not only about a specific subject matter but also about their learning (metacognition) in relation to the information era and the accessibility of information through high-tech devices?
- How do education, knowledge, and curriculum relate to each other? What is the relationship between them? How does one supplement the other?
- How do teachers’ perceptions of student performance impact learners’ achievement? What does attribution theory suggest about these ideas? Is there any instance that you noticed such issues as a student or as a teacher candidate in a school?
- What knowledge is most worth? How does the relationship between knowledge and power impact education?
- According to Britzman (2000) what is the ethical obligation of teachers and teacher education and how does this relate to self-knowledge? How does self-knowledge, in turn, relate to experience?
- What is homeschooling? How does it differ from deschooling? How do these concepts speak to you in relation to the education-knowledge-curriculum triangle?
- Discuss the relation between education, knowledge, truth, and the impact of technology in this century? Hint-ethics, plagiarism, fake news, information abundance
- What do we mean by a hidden curriculum? How is it different from the null curriculum? In terms of decolonization, ethnic, and racial relations, what can we say about the existing curriculum in terms of these concepts?
- What are tensions in knowledge? How will teachers and/or teacher education engage with the ethical dilemmas facing the profession and teachers knowledge in general?
- What does decolonizing means? How can we decolonize knowledge?
- Discuss the nine continua of meaning about the terms knowledge and belief and why they are “inherently in exact”?
- What do we mean by a hidden curriculum? How is it different from the null curriculum? In terms of decolonization, ethnic, and racial relations, what can we say about the existing curriculum?