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    Education
    471-4
    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.

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