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Educating for Innovators
Be a force for positive educational change. The Curriculum & Teaching program equips educators, researchers, and leaders with the tools they need to transform curricula and school organizations with a focus on challenging inequalities and imagining new possibilities for education.
Welcome to the Program in Curriculum & Teaching
The Curriculum & Teaching master's programs at Teachers College, Columbia University, go beyond traditional teacher education to examine the issues in the field of curriculum through both theory and practice. You will have opportunities to become an expert in areas such as curriculum design, school change and reform, action research, and other school-based inquiry strategies. This distinctive program also has a strong commitment to social justice and equity in education. The Curriculum & Teaching master's programs are ideal for educators who want to lead — in the classroom and in the field. Students may attend full or part-time and often choose to continue to work while pursuing a graduate degree.
This C&T program entails diverse approaches to the study of curriculum, pedagogy, and society. The following core tenets reflect the collective interests, concerns, and commitments that shape coursework and student experiences:
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CORE TENETS OF THE PROGRAM |
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Curriculum and teaching as inquiry. The basis of all educational work is asking critical questions about learners and the sociopolitical contexts of communities and learning environments, and uncovering questions that have not yet been asked. Inquiry is central to the tasks of education. |
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Teaching as curriculum making. Educators are designers of curricula informed by critical and creative understandings of teaching and learning in authentic contexts. Pedagogy is part of the curriculum. |
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Curriculum and teaching as social justice. Educators in all contexts are responsible for critically analyzing the enduring complexities of difference and equity to enact change in education and society. Critical analysis is essential for disruption. |
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Assessment as core to teaching and learning. Assessments reflect shifting conceptions of knowledge and sociopolitical realities and therefore must themselves be analyzed for assumptions, biases, and consequences. Critical analysis is the core of assessment practices. |
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Curriculum and teaching in motion. Creative and multimodal work is needed to contend with historical conceptions of schooling, to recognize the enduring embodiment of knowledge, and to reimagine possibilities in education. Curricular knowledge is everywhere. |
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- Master of Arts
- Master of Education
- Doctor of Education