Monthly Archives: October 2020

Blog Post Week 7: Citizenship and the Curriculum

Question: Respond on your blog in a post (not on a page) to the following: [What kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy]: What examples of citizenship education do you remember from your K-12 schooling? What types of citizenship … Continue reading

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Blog Post Week 6: The Politics of Curriculum

Question: Although curriculum is a fundamental part of the framework of schooling, curriculum decisions and choices are shaped in large measure by other considerations—ideology, personal values, issues in the public domain, and interests. Curriculum decisions are often part of a … Continue reading

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Blog Post Week 5: Queerness and the Classroom

Question: How might we begin to address the ways in which the systems that we teach our curriculum in are intrinsically homophonic, transphobic, biphobic and oppressive towards queer and trans people? What does integrating queerness into curriculum studies mean to … Continue reading

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Blog Post Week 4: Good Student

Question: What does it mean to be a “good” student according to the commonsense? Which students are privileged by this definition of the good student?  How is the “good” student shaped by historical factors? What does it mean to be … Continue reading

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