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Culture and Curriculum

The Culture and Curriculum program offers students an opportunity to study in one of the following areas: Multicultural Education, Foundations of Education, Curriculum Theory, Social Studies Education, and Art Education and Visual Culture.

Courses in Culture and Curriculum

EDCI 633. Educator as Learner.

Designed to challenge the graduate learner as one who studies metacognition, working to understand how self and others process learning, maximize application of learning and evaluate the meaning of learning; for students working with others in a role of mentor, supervisor, administrator or coach in a PK-12 setting. Prerequisite: EDCI 631.

EDCI 642. Multicultural Education: Theory, Research and Practice.

Theory and research that undergirds the discipline of multicultural education by exploring the philosophical, anthropological and psychological theoretical frameworks. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

EDCI 643. Teaching in Urban Environments.

Provide educators with historical perspectives, pedagogical knowledge and insights concerning educational experience of teachers and learners in urban environments. Will address cognitive, pyschomotor and affective aspects of teaching and learning in urban environments. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

EDCI 645. Society and Education in World Perspective.

Comparative education; interrelationships among societal institutions and particular roles that education plays indifferent cultures and political systems.

EDCI 658. History of Education.

The genesis of formal education in the Western world beginning with the ancient Greeks and working through the Enlightenment; tracing the idea that schooling is a fundamental part of human existence and therefore crucial to all questions concerning the human condition. Prerequisite: Doctoral classification or approval of instructor.

EDCI 659. History of American Education.

The social and institutional role of public education in the United States from 1789 to the present; including clarification of the political and economic underpinning that have worked catalytically to change the structure of public education in terms of philosophy, methods and curricula. Prerequisite: Doctoral classification or approval of instructor.

EDCI 662. Philosophical Theories of Education.

Selected historical theories of education from Plato to Skinner; evaluating educational ends and means; the nature of knowledge, its acquisition and transmission. Doctoral level only.

EDCI 670. Social Studies in Elementary and Secondary Education.

Methodology course focusing upon the implementation, both practical and theoretical, of the objectives of social studeis: current trends, resource materials, demonstrations of teaching methods.

EDCI 677. Strategies for Teaching in a Culturally Pluralistic Society.

Research concerning the cognitive, psychomotor and affective aspects of learning and teaching among culturally diverse learners; practical applications to curriculum and instruction.

Culture and Curriculum Faculty Members

Dr. Lynn Burlbaw

Dr. B. Stephen Carpenter

Dr. Norvella Carter

Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson

Dr. Patricia Larke

Dr. Chance Lewis

Dr. G. Patrick Slattery, Jr.

Dr. Hersch Waxman

Culture and Curriculum Website: http://cac.coe.tamu.edu/index.html