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Education
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Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice
FALL,
1983
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INSTRUCTOR: Maurice Gibbons
Thursdays,
6:30 - 10:30
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LOCATION: DOWNTOWNCENTRE
Education
471
is essentially a how-to-do-it course in program
development. Students will learn how to examine the school or
business context so they can make rational decisions about what their
instructional program should be designed to achieve. Then they will
learn how to create an appropriate model of instruction for achieving
the purposes they identified. They will learn to set goals, select
suitable content and design effective learning activities.
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Finally
they will find out how to evaluate the success of their program and improve
it. All theoretical considerations will be related to the practical
issues involved in the process of strategic program planning and
implementation.
Students will be assigned preparatory readings for most class sessions.
In addition, they will design and implement three programs of their own
determination and design: one for their own development of personal
expertise in a field of their choice; one for the setting in which
they are working, or a negotiated alternative; and one designed with a
small team of other students in the class. The purpose of these
programs is the practical application of the course content to
important activities in the students' lives.
TEXTBOOKS:
Eisner, Elliot W. The Educational imagination: On the Design and
Evaluation of School Programs. New York: MacMillan,
1979.
Johnson, David W. & Johnson, Frank P. Joining Together: Group
Theory and Skills. ?
Englewood Cliffs (N.J.):
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Prentice-Hall,
1975.
Tyler, Ralph. ?
Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1969.