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Welcome to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I)! We offer high quality learning programs to prepare education professionals for positions in schools, higher education, and the workplace. Undergraduates in C&I may enroll in programs leading to teacher licensure in elementary education or social studies education. At the graduate level, students may pursue advanced degrees in education disciplines including curriculum studies, education for work and community, educational technology, literacy and language education, mathematics education, science education, and social studies education. Our faculty conducts research that links theory to practice leading to new discoveries in many aspects of the teaching and learning process across a wide variety of educational contexts. C&I serves the needs of society through engagement with our local, state, national, and international communities. We value collaboration, community, diversity, global perspectives, inquiry, and reflection, and we aspire to provide educational leadership in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and technology-rich world. Sincerely, James D. Lehman Head of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction |
The fall 2008 semester begins August 25, 2008. Bill Watson, assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the educational technology program, has created a new Purdue Center for Serious Games and Learning in Virtual Environments with seed funding from the Discovery Learning Center. The new center is a place for faculty and graduate students to collaborate on their work with virtual environments and video games that can be used as learning environments. For more information, see the available Purdue Exponent article. Jill May, professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the literacy and language program, received the 2008 Anne Devereaux Jordan Award from the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) at the organization's 35th annual conference. The award "is intended to honor the lifetime achievement of an individual whose scholarship and service have had a significant impact on the field of children's literature." First Opinions - Second Reactions: Reviews of Recent Children’s and Young Adult Literature is a new electronic journal published by Purdue University Press and co-edited by Professors Janet Alsup and Jill May. The journal is designed as a forum for teachers, scholars, and students to learn about new books and integrate them into their curricula or scholarly works. The journal publishes not only reviews of books for children and young adults, but also the "reactions" of teachers and scholars to these reviews after the materials have been introduced to students at various instructional levels. Thus, the journal seeks to create a dialogue among those who are interested in the study and classroom teaching of children’s and adolescent literature. Each issue revolves around a topic or issue relevant to contemporary children’s and young adult literature. The inaugural issue of First Opinions—Second Reactions is available online at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/fosr/ The Journal of Science Teacher Education, the official journal of the Association for Science Teacher Education, is now being edited at Purdue. The co-editors are Professors Lynn Bryan, joint appointee in C&I and Physics, and John Staver, Co-Director of the Center for Research and Engagement is Science and Mathematics Education (CRESME) and joint appointee in C&I and Chemistry. Other members of C&I who will serve as associate editors include George Bodner (courtesy faculty), Brenda Capobianco, David Eichinger, Gerald Krockover, Anita Roychoudhury, and Dan Shepardson. |