Teaching to difference: curriculum frameworks and strategies
Dr G Tsolidis
Second semester * Clayton
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to research which examines the interrelationships between concepts such as gender and ethnicity and the significance of those interrelationships to teaching and learning. Transformative curriculum frameworks and strategies and the role of the teacher as change agent will be examined. Students will explore examples of curriculum which aim to challenge sexism and racism. Particular attention will be given to the notion of inclusive curriculum, the way it has developed through policy and at a school and classroom level. Within this subject the emphasis is on curriculum outcomes, and this is reflected in the assessment. As part of the assessment, students will be asked to design either a unit of work for classroom use, a policy document or a professional development module. There are no prerequisites for this subject, however it dovetails with GED2805 (Gender and education) and GED2817 (Language, society and cultural difference).
Assessment
Written (6000 words) * Class participation
Recommended texts
Gore J The struggle for pedagogies: Critical and feminist discourses as regimes of truth Routledge, 1993
Troyna Racism, education and the state Open UP , 1993
Yates L The education of girls, policy, research and the question of gender ACER, 1993