“Curriculum Camp”
1-Week Education Foundation Courses
Spend the summer “away” at Curriculum Camp! Three 1-week-long “camp” options allow you to mix and match different emphases related to your current work and future career plans.
Foundations of Curriculum
Curriculum Camp this Summer 2009 offers a one-week version of the Foundations of Curriculum course, an introduction to the field of Curriculum Studies. Of interest to teachers, administrators, and other formal and non-formal educators, curriculum studies is a field of educational leadership that focuses on the design and evaluation of educational programs, whether at a classroom, school, organizational, regional, level, or in a non-school environment, based on the analysis of philosophical and other beliefs, and on the needs and concerns of those involved. Curriculum reform and the design, development and evaluation of educational programs, requires artistic, political, and other analytic skills. Curriculum Studies 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: 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 curriculum theory and educational practice, with a focus on school programs and the contours of culture and society in which these programs are located, and work to create educational communities that enact vibrant and powerful professional development opportunities for their colleagues.
Curriculum Camp Summer 2009’s version of ED 502, Curriculum Foundations, is for those who are ready to take on the challenges of provocative educational theories, and who want to find ways to use them to make educational programs more meaningful and engaging. Participants will leave with a working knowledge of cutting edge theorists and their ideas, and with newly designed educational programs to be implemented in the next year. Emphasis will be on programs that can make serious impacts on the learning communities in which they occur.
- Dates: July 13-17, 2009; 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
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- Price: $1,416, earn 3 Graduate Credits; 20% Discount Pricing!
- Course Code: ED502 (4)
- Period: 2009 Summer II
Cultural Foundations of Education
- For K-12 preservice and practicing teachers and administrators
Through concepts drawn from fields of anthropology, sociology and communication studies, this course includes analysis of schools as cultural settings, ways of understanding student classroom performance, and the impact of classroom pedagogy on student and teacher development.
This course will examine how educational experiences are influenced by how teachers and educational institutions structure learning experiences and environments. During the week, students will explore theoretical and ideological foundations upon which we make sense of practical tools and methods for culturally competent teaching through discussion, dialogical pedagogy, films and guest speakers.
- Dates: July 27-31, 2009; 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Price: $1,416, earn 3 Graduate Credits; 20% Discount Pricing!
- Course Code: ED505 (4)
- Period: 2009 Summer II
Theory and Practice in Urban Education
- For pre-service and practicing K-12 Urban Teachers
- Course meets on campus and visits fields sites in the surrounding Philadelphia schools
The concept of urban education is critical to our understanding of teaching and learning in the United States. Schools do not exist in vacuums; instead they exist within the larger social contexts of neighborhoods, cities and the nation. From the early struggles and victories of urban communities across the country for education equality to current reform battles, urban schooling has historically played a primary role in transforming education.
During the course of the week, students will explore the field of urban Education through discussion, films, guest speakers and fieldwork. Students will be able to apply what they are leaning and better understand how to empower their urban students by using best practices in curriculum and classroom management.
- Dates: Aug. 3-7, 2009; 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Price: $1,416, earn 3 Graduate Credits; 20% Discount Pricing!
- Course Code: ED501 (1)
- Period: 2009 Summer III
For More Information
For more information on any of these courses, contact the Office of Enrollment Management at 1-877-ARCADIA (1-877-272-2342) or admiss@arcadia.edu.
These courses can be applied to the M.Ed. in Curriculum Studies, or the graduate certificate in Curriculum.
Additionally, each of these courses meet a Foundations Course requirement for any of Arcadia’s M.Ed. Programs.
