BrockU EDUC 3P00 - Foundations of Curriculum

Hello!

I am thrilled to be part of another teaching team at Brock University for the 2015/2016 academic year. This year I am a teaching assistant for the undergraduate course: EDUC 3P00 Foundations of Curriculum.

Image screenshot from current EDUC3P00 Syllabus 2015

The course consists of two hours of lecture every week 

Photo by: Monica Taylor, Sept 18 2015 

& one hour of seminar every week

Photo by: Monica Taylor

In seminar, students are expected to prepare for seminars in the following way: 

Image screenshot from current EDUC3P00 Syllabus 2015

In this week's seminars, we are exploring the first two readings by visually representing their content. The students were asked to create a poster that included the most important and relevant information for the concept given. There are six groups (teams) in each seminar. The weekly reading was easily separated into six main concepts. The thoughts of both Parker Palmer and John Dewey on curriculum and educational philosophy made two teams. The educational philosophies essentialism, perenialism, progressivism, and reconstructivism made up the remaining four teams. Check out some of the final products below from Seminar 2 (Tuesday morning)! The groups had such interesting explanations for some of the visual metaphors and illustrations!