Graduate Courses

EDL 790.A: Contemporary Curriculum Theorizing

• Apple, M. W. (2004). Ideology and curriculum (3rd ed.). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
• Britzman, D. (1998). Lost subjects, contested objects: Toward a psychoanalytic inquiry of learning. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Gay, G. (2000). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Kanu, Y. (Ed.). (2006). Curriculum as cultural practice: Postcolonial imaginations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Pinar, W. F., et al. (Eds.). (2000). Understanding curriculum: An introduction to the study of historical and contemporary curriculum discourses. New York: Peter Lang.
• Popkewitz, T. S., & Brennan, M. (Eds.). (1997). Foucault’s challenge: Discourse, knowledge, and power in education. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Willinsky, J. (1998). Learning to divide the world: Education at empire’s end. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

EDL 639: Curriculum Theory

• Eisner, E. W. (2004). The arts and the creation of mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Flinders, D. J., & Thornton, S. J. (Eds.). (2004). The curriculum studies reader (2nd ed.). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
• Joseph, P. B., Bravman, S. L., Windschitl, M. A., Mikel, E. R., & Green, N. S. (2000). Cultures of curriculum. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Walker, D. F. (2003). Fundamentals of curriculum: Passion and professionalism (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

EDL 646: Curriculum Development

• Byrnes, J. P. (2001). Minds, brains, and learning: Understanding the psychological and educational relevance of neuroscientific research. New York: Guilford.
• Gay, G. (2000). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
• McMillan, J. H. (2007). Classroom assessment: Principles and practice for effective standards-based instruction (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
• Tomlinson, C. A. (2001). How to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability classrooms (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

EDL 647: Curriculum and Cultural Studies

• Cortes, C. E. (2000). The children are watching: How the media teach about diversity. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Ellsworth, E. A. (1997). Teaching positions: Difference, pedagogy, and the power of address. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Gee. J. P. (2005). An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Helmers, M. (2006). The elements of visual analysis. New York: Pearson Longman.
• Morrell, E. (2004). Linking literacy and popular culture: Finding connections for lifelong learning. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.