Participants are introduced to approaches to curriculum theory, design, development and
implementation for a variety of educational contexts. Students are encouraged to consider
their own emerging understanding of education and apply it to the development and
implementation of a nominated curriculum. Students in this unit critique issues including
the nature of knowledge and how it might be represented in the curriculum; global, local
and contextual demands on the knowledge, skills, values and beliefs in a curriculum;
curriculum as a contested space; constructing and sequencing of teaching components and
resource materials evaluation of teaching content, student learning and program design.