| Curriculum and Instruction is important in Michigan State University's College of Education approach to graduate education. We think of curriculum, roughly, as what opportunities children have to learn. This includes the traditional subject matter areas of social studies, mathematics, science, and literacy and how they are continually being re-conceptualized and re-written. It extends to the way that classrooms are configured by teachers and students. It reaches out to and is framed by social and political context.
We have scholars who focus on these issues. Sometimes they study several of these issues in multiple ways. The reach of our approach to curriculum study, then, includes how knowledge, power, and aesthetics mix and mingle in providing opportunities for students to learn. These investigations include social studies, science, literacy, and mathematics curriculum and investigation in addition to more general questions such as race, class, gender, the nature of the educational canon, the purposes of education and how curriculum may be read, interpreted, and criticized. The scope of our offerings range from philosophy of education and science to literary theory to the history of school subjects to the analysis of educational policy to classroom learning. Michigan State University enjoys and maintains a dynamic and vital approach to curriculum and instruction.
We have three programs that target curriculum and instruction. First, the Master of Arts in Curriculum and Teaching program (http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/mact/) that is a non-research program for experienced teachers who may specialize in social studies, science, literacy, mathematics, or technology. Second, the Master of Arts in Literacy Education program (http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/literacy/) that is a non-research program for experienced teachers concentrated on issues of literacy education. Third, the advanced graduate program in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy (http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/ctep/) that is our nationally ranked doctoral program designed to produce world class educators and researchers.
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