Formalizing curriculum definitions: slide deck
Section role: supports the 'From Experience to Theory: Formalizing Definitions' section while the teacher synthesizes findings from the gallery walk into educational theory. Slides: (1) Title — 'Formalizing Curriculum: From Experience to Theory'; (2) Etymology and Evolution — bullets: Latin roots 'currere', tension between course and running, shifting beyond textbooks; (3) Tyler Rationale as Product — bullets: objectives, learning experiences, organization, evaluation; (4) Stenhouse as Process — bullets: teacher-student interaction, procedural guidelines, open-ended learning; (5) Freire as Praxis — bullets: critical pedagogy, conscientization, action and reflection; (6) Jackson and the Hidden Curriculum — bullets: unintended lessons, institutional norms, punctuality and compliance; (7) Eisner and the Null Curriculum — bullets: what is left out, unvoiced assumptions, excluded subjects; (8) William Pinar and the Reconceptualist Shift — bullets: curriculum as a complicated conversation, connecting group design choices to lived experience. Closing slide: 'How do our university design choices fit into these theoretical frameworks?' — hands control back to the teacher for discussion.
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