Curriculum Design and Deliberation, Fall 2013

Concept Map

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After being given some key terms, we were challenged to create a concept map relating those concepts to each other that demonstrated our understandings of how knowledge is created. My map borrows from the mapping done in Research Methodologies (Spring 2013), though I was inspired by several classmates' creative and more abstract concept maps, such as envisioning the creation of knowledge as an act of baking and another seeing school as the train car on the railroad track of education.

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Interview Report

We were encouraged to interview someone (an acquaintance, family member, friend, or stranger) three questions relating to education: 1) 2) and 3) . From these answers, we discussed and interpreted some of the implications these answers have on our understandings of the purposes of education. 

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Final Paper

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In this piece I was able to bring together a number of theorists discussed in Curriculum Design and Deliberation and some of the work done in my Adult Learning independent study in order to explore and understand better my own teaching philosophy. In particular, John Dewey's thoughts on education and experience helped me to reconcile some concerns I had had while forming my teaching philosophy.

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