PhD

Reasoning

I hope to earn a PhD studying curriculum change. I want us physics educators to consider allowing our curriculum to evolve with time, but I want to know how it has done so before. The work will draw on my experience as a physics teacher, my studies of the history of physics and the history of science.

Methods

I will use several methods:

1. Trace the path of the content of physics courses.
   1. Review textbooks from the past 200 years.
   2. Interview educators, ask how they choose what to teach.
   3. Use critical historical methods to find how content choices have been made.
2. Identify curriculum change.
   1. Measure diversity of curriculum.
   2. Identify links between curriculum branches and populations, purposes.
   3. Identify people involved in curriculum change.
      1. Determine their power and effectiveness.
      2. Determine their limitations.

Courses

STS 3301 I enrolled extramurally, but I see this as research for the PhD.

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