work at their own pace". Teachers play the role of "[following] the children's lead, [expanding] on their interests, [providing] meaningful and developmentally appropriate materials, and [promoting] independent learning skills". Bibliography Important Curriculum Studies books: The Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibility by William Schubert in addition to Understanding Curriculum by William Pinar, et al. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995). External links to university programs Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ctl/Prospective_Students/CTL_Graduate_Programs/Curriculum_Studies_and_Teacher_Development_%28CSTD%29/index.html University of British Columbia in Vancouver: www.ubc.ca University of Illinois at Chicago: http://www.uic.edu/gcat/EDCIE.shtml#e University of Wisconsin-Madison: https://ci.education.wisc.edu/research/curriculum-studies-global-studies/ Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey: www.monmouth.edu Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA University of Alberta in Edmonton: https://web.archive.org/web/20070116062802/http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/secondaryed/ North West University, North West, South Africa Indiana University, Bloomington, IN: www.iub.edu Purdue University: http://www.edci.purdue.edu/curriculum_studies/ Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX): https://www.depts.ttu.edu/education/graduate/curriculum-and-instruction/curriculum_studies_teacher_education.php Texas Christian University: https://web.archive.org/web/20140225210058/http://www.coe.tcu.edu/graduate-students-curriculum-studies.asp Brock University,St.Catharines,Ontario,Canada: http://www.brocku.ca/education/futurestudents/graduateed/mastersofed/program-description Curriculum Studies is now known as Social and Cultural Contexts of Education (*due to the change of the MEd program requirements commencing in 2008-09 http://www.brocku.ca/webcal/2007/graduate/educ.html) Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK: http://education.okstate.edu/cied Western University, London, ON : https://web.archive.org/web/20160308202142/http://www.edu.uwo.ca/graduate-education/Program%20Brochures/PhD%20-%20Field%20of%20Curriculum%20Studies.pdf DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois : https://education.depaul.edu/academics/leadership-language-curriculum/graduate/curriculum-studies-phd/Pages/default.aspx University of North Texas, Denton, Texas: https://www.unt.edu/academics/grad/curriculum-and-instruction-phd References Academic disciplines Curricula Critical pedagogy