Curriculum Theory Project Course Offerings for Fall 2006 |
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EDCI 7901:Curriculum Theory, Mon 4:30 to 7:30 ( Dr. Petra Munro Hendry ) |
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Curriculum as a field of study is both complex and diverse with multiple perspectives and approaches. This course will examine the field by looking at curriculum not as a technical document, but as a social process. The course will introduce various theoretical discourses in the field of curriculum (pragmatist,feminist, poststructual, political, postmodern, phenomological among others) and the representative works of several influential curriculum theorists (Dewey, Tyler, Friere, Apple). Students are expected to acquire a working knowledge of contemporary curriculum thought, its historical antecedents, and be able to articulate a position, however temporary, where they find themselves within the field. |
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| EDCI 7811: Contemporary Social Thought and Political Education, Wed 4:30 to 7:30 ( Dr. Kaustuv Roy ) | |||
| This seminar will look into and theorize contemporary socio political phenomena such as the rise of corporatism, the crisis of the liberal democratic state, technocracy and the ethics of global capitalism, state terrorism and energy politics, and a variety of other issues affecting humanity and its environments around the world. It will scrutinize and rethink terms and slogans such as sovereignty, freedom, constitution, democracy etc. Finally we will also address what options people have to reengage in politics. It will feature readings from such contemporary frontline thinkers as Guy Debor, Paul Virilio, Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and others. | |||
| EDCI 7307 (Session 2): Seminar in Peirce and Poincaré: Reading the Roots of Complexity, Tue 5:00 to 8:00 |
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| If modernity, modernism and modernist representation have shaped Western thought in dichotomous, ethnocentric, hierarchical, rationalist ways, what potential might complexity theory have for moving representation beyond modernity? Might complexity theory do more than provide a different set of metaphors than the mechanistic metaphors of modernist discourse? What is the relevance of complexity theory for representation? What does complexity represent? The mathematical and logical works of American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce and French intellectual Henri Poincaré are in part responsible for our being able to conceive the questions above. Each was interested in the relationship of mathematics to reasoning, language, and creativity. Further, their work inspired strains of theorizing that led to the development of complexity theory. Noted French poststructuralist Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres, and pragmatist John Dewey draw upon these two scholars. This is not a course in mathematics. It is a course in readings by and about Peirce and Poincaré, delving into the historical roots of complexity theory and the relationship of this theory to modernist logic (reason), epistemology, and representation. |
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| COURSE OF RELATED INTEREST WGS 4500: The Psychology of Women, Tue & Thurs 1:40 to 3:00 ( Dr. Rita Culross) |
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| Psychology of Women will discuss the contributions of biology, socialization, and cognition to the unique development of girls and women across the lifespan. Students will learn to listen to and speak about psychological processes and theory from women's voices and to reconceptualize psychological development as it pertains to women. Students will also compare and contrast the psychological development of males and females and will indicate how that development differentially impacts roles at work and in relationships with others. |
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