Nov 23, 2024

2015-2016 Graduate Catalog

2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Curriculum Studies Concentration, M.Ed.

About the Master’s Degree Program

This program prepares teachers, administrators, and other formal and nonformal educators for leadership roles in curriculum reform and the design, development and evaluation of educational programs. It is also valuable for classroom teachers who use modes of curriculum inquiry to reflect on their practice.

The field of curriculum studies transcends disciplinary boundaries to better understand educative experience. Fundamental questions for curriculum studies include the following: What knowledge is of most worth? Who gets to decide? How can we align the planned, experienced and evaluated curriculum? Curriculum inquirers use such questions to further investigate the connections among educational and social theories and educational practice, with a focus on school or public/media programs and the contours of culture and society in which these programs are located. They work to create educational communities that enact vibrant and powerful professional development opportunities for their colleagues.

Master of Education Degree Requirements (M.Ed.)

(a minimum of 30 credits)

The degree program must be planned with an adviser to ensure that degree certification requirements are satisfied. For reasons that grow out of the field of curriculum studies itself, there is a great deal of flexibility possible in putting together a coherent degree program. Students are encouraged to use courses for a certificate as part of their concentration, combined with electives, and to explore graduate level courses in related fields outside of Education.

Foundations Courses (at least 6 credits)

Any two foundations courses other than ED 502 in consultation with the adviser However, it is assumed that students already would have had the equivalent of ED 503 in previous study.)

Concentration courses

(a minimum of 15 credits; the following are of particular interest to students in this concentration)

ED 502 Foundations of Curriculum (3 credits)
ED 547 Social Justice & Curriculum Development PreK-12 (3 credits)
ED 651 Education Policy, Reform and Change (3 credits)
ED 596 Curriculum Project (3 credits)
ED 598 Advanced Seminar (3 credits)
ED 650 Advanced Seminar in Curriculum Development and Design (3 credits)
At least one course chosen under advisement in the area of curriculum that the student is focusing on (e.g., Leadership, Mathematics, Reading, Arts and Creativity, Social Studies Connected & Networked Learning, Counseling, Special Education, Peace Education, STEM)

Electives (3-6 credits)

to be chosen under consultation with adviser. Courses suggested as particularly appropriate for this concentration include:

ED 501 Theory and Practice in Urban Education (3 credits)
ED 505 Cultural Foundations of Education (3 credits)
ED 510 Interpreting Educational Research (3 credits)
ED 642 Program Evaluation (3 credits)

Culminating Master’s Project

ED 599 Culminating Masters’ Project (3 credits)

Please Note:

All students completing a graduate Education degree are required to complete a Degree Candidacy Form with their academic adviser after completing 15 Arcadia graduate credits. Degree Candidacy is the academic program plan required for the degree and must be submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies, Taylor 105.