Public Pedagogies

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Discussions about curriculum and pedagogy in education have, for the most part, been limited an limiting, exploring curriculum as a written plan of study (often handed down by the state or a district) and pedagogy as the mere equivalence of teacher instruction. Using some foundational and contemporary theories in education combined with those with ideas from public pedagogy and cultural studies, the intent of this course it to broaden and complexify our understandings of curriculum and pedagogy - what they are, what they entail, where and by whom they are enacted, and mostly, what they "do" in education when conceived in more broader terms.