Specialization in Curriculum and Teaching (EdD)

The mission of the specialization in Curriculum and Teaching is to develop transforming educators with the intellectual depth, the competencies for research, pedagogical knowledge, ethical sensitivity and the opening to change. They will also design and propose innovating alternatives that solve the problems of education in contemporary society. This specialization admits candidates of a multiplicity of disciplinary backgrounds and educational levels that aspire to develop an integral vision of education that values and promotes constructive dialog, diversity and social justice. The graduates of this program can perform as consultants or facilitators for the design, development, implementation and evaluation of teaching programs in variable scenarios, as well as investigators in educational projects.

The goals of this specialization are the following:

1. Establish a diverse interchange of intellectual and practical experiences among educators of different academic backgrounds and educational levels that will facilitate the exploration and extension of traditional disciplinary limits and promote a transforming vision of education.
2. Prepare top level educators with the knowledge, abilities and the attitudes necessary to design, implement and evaluate programs and to promote learning in diverse social and educational contexts.
3. Develop top level educators with a reflective, critical and ethical attitude that will take into consideration the historical, economic, political, social, and cultural factors in the analysis of the curricula and propose alternatives to take care of contemporary problems.
4. Strengthen the professional communicative abilities to make curricular proposals, related research and other projects.

Competencies Profile of Graduates

Graduates of the specialization in Curriculum and the Teaching of the Doctoral program in Education (Ed. D.) will demonstrate the following competencies:

Knowledge

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding to:

1. Interpret the diverse factors that sustain the historical, philosophical, psychological and sociological evolution in which one frames the curriculum and teaching as fields of study.
2. Analyze the economic, social, cultural and political factors that affect decision making regarding the elaboration of educational programs in diverse sociocultural contexts.
3. Compare the theories and the diverse approaches that orient research of the teaching processes, the learning and the elaboration of curricula.
4. Analyze the methodological theories and approaches that guide the evaluation processes of curriculum and teaching in diverse educational and cultural contexts.

Skills

1. Develop educational programs that respond to the needs of the students within the framework of the corresponding institutional, cultural and social contexts.
2. Develop teaching models that consider research related to the ways of knowing and learning and the diversity of the students.
3. Develop evaluation processes for appropriate educational programs according to the diverse institutional, educational, social and cultural contexts.
4. Design educational research which advances knowledge in areas related to curriculum and teaching.

Attitudes

1. Show a disposition for continuous and ample learning with an integrated and transdisciplinary vision that foments the construction of a contextualized, globalized, open and reflective thought for curriculum and teaching.
2. Show openness for creativity, change and innovation with particular attention to social, cultural and technological changes that lead and affect transformations of an educational and social nature.
3. Demonstrate an ethical conduct that considers the interests, problems and needs of all sectors from which the participants in the educational process come.
4. Demonstrate a critical and creative perspective in your approach to educational practices that respond to the human cultural diversity that promotes social justice.

Requirements for the Specialization in Curriculum and Teaching

Core Courses
Foundations	6 credits
Research	9 credits
Specialization Requirements	18 credits
Operational Requirements	9 credits
Prescribed Descriptive Requirements	6 credits
Elective Courses	3 credits
Total	51 credits

Specialization requirements in Curriculum and Teaching - 18 credits

EDUC 8100	Theoretical Principles for the Study of Curriculum and Teaching	3
EDUC 8103	Contemporary Theoretical Perspective for the Study of Curriculum and Teaching	3
EDUC 8130	Learning and Teaching	3
EDUC 8135	Development of Teaching Models	3
EDUC 8160	Designs of Curricular Evaluation	3
EDUC 8190	Design and Construction of Educational Programs	3

Prescribed Descriptive Requirements in Curriculum and Teaching - 6 credits

Students will select two (2) of the following courses:

EDUC 8150	Curriculum at the Postsecondary Level	3
EDUC 8151	Change and Curricular Innovation	3
EDUC 8152	Educational Policy and Curricular Implementation	3
EDUC 8153	Neuroscience Applied to Curriculum and Teaching	3
EDUC 8154	Technology, Curriculum and Teaching	3

Elective Courses in the Specialization in Curriculum and Teaching - 3 credits

Students will select one (1) course at the doctoral level to complete the three (3) credits.