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EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Spring
1980
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Instructor: David Hopkins
KAMLOOPS - John Todd Elem. School
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VERNON - Teacher Centre
435
McGowan Avenue
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15th Street
Mondays from
4:30-8:15
p.m.
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Tuesdays from
5:00-9:00
p.m.
Using an experiential approach, this course will assist the student:
- to develop competencies related to curriculum
development, evaluation and implementation
- to gain theoretical and practical understanding
of curriculum and its implications for education
and society
- to develop a curriculum related to his/her own
subject area and age group
- to internalize a model of self-education applicable
to both institutional and non-institutional
settings and life long learning
These goals will be developed through the following activities:
- class presentations and workshops
- individual and group negotiated contracts on
competencies related to curriculum development
- critical discussion of related readings
- external visits, and consultations with community
resources
Requirements for the course will be met through contracts, negciated with
the instructor, which focus on the acquisition of competencies.elevant to
curriculum development. These negotiated contracts will also
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basis of the letter grade assigned at the end of the course.
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Textbooks for the course include:
KNOWLES, Malcom; Self Directed Learning, Association Press, 19
STENHOUSE, Lawrence; An Introduction of Curriculum Research a
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DevelOpment,
London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.,
1975.
TYLER, Ralph W.; Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instructi
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London:
The University of Chicago Press,
1973.
Further information about the course can be obtained from thdEKS.tructor,
David Hopkins, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
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(office phone).
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EDUCATION 471: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT THEORY & PRACTICE
Spring Semester 1980
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David Hopkins
SESSION I
- Overview of Course
- Definition of Curriculum
- Competencies required for Curriculum Development
- Negotiating the Learning Contract
- Curriculum Development and In-service
Readings:
- Malcolm Knowles - Self-Directed Learning
- Lawrence Stenhouse - An Introduction to Curriculum Research &
Development
- Ralph W. Tyler - Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
- *Maurice Gibbons & Garry Phillips - Negotiating the Learning Contract
- +Harold Benjamin - Saber Tooth Curriculum
SESSION II
- Models for Curriculum Development
- School Focussed Curriculum Development
Readings:
- *Maurice Gibbons - The Curriculum Development Cycle
- *}4boojjn Ski].beck - School Board Curriculum Development
- *Denis Lawton - Social Change, Educational Theory and Curriculum
Planning, Unibooks, 1975; Chapter 1, Models
of Curriculum
Development
- Stenhouse - Chapter 1
- +Gibbons & Phillips - Ten Steps to Self Education
SESSION III
- Social and Psychological Bases of Curriculum
Readings:
- *Denis Lawton - Class Culture & the Curriculum, R.K.P. 1975,
Chapter 4 - Sociology, Knowledge and the Curriculum
- Chapter 3 & 4
see - +Kieran Egan - 'On the Need for Theory in Curriculum Studies'
also - +Basil Bernstein - 'On the Classification and Framing of
Educational Knowledge'
- +D Young - 'An approach to the study of curricula as socially
organized knowledge'
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- John Eggleston - The Sociology of the School O3rriculum, R.K.P. 1977
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- Jerome Bruner - Towards a Theory of Instruction, Harvard 1966.
* Handout issued by instructor
+ Copy of paper available on site
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SESSION IV
- Identification Stage of Curriculum Development
- Problem Solving and Needs Assessment
- Systems Approach to Educational Planning
Readings:
- Stenhouse, chapter 2
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Assessment Handout
- Roger A. Kaufman - Educational System Planning, Prentice-Han 1972.
- Roger A. Kaufman - Identifying and Solving Problems, University
Associates, 1976
- Fenwick English & Roger Kaufman - Needs Assessment, ASCD, 1975
SESSION V
- The Rational Approach to Curriculum FOrmulation & Production
Readings:
- Stenhouse, Chapters 5, 6, & 7
- Preparing Instructional Objectives - Robert F. Mager (2nd ed.)
Fearon, 1975.
- Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction - Ralph W. Tyler,
The University of Chicago Press, 1949
- +Eliot Eisner - Instructional. & Expressive Objectives
- +M. Macdonald-Ross - Behavioral Objectives - a critical review
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*R.C.D.B.O.
Hirst -
Open
The
University
Nature and
Handout
Structure of Curriculum
Objectives
- Planning Curriculum for Schools, G.J. Saylor & Win.
M. Alexander,
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Holt, Rinehart, 1974
- Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice - Hilda Taba, Harcourt
Brace, 1962.
- Curriculum Development: Theory Into Practice - D. Tanner &
L.N. Tanner, MacMillan Publishing Co.
Curriculum and the Cultural Revolution - David Purpel & Maurice
Belanger, McCutchan, 1972.
SESSION VI
- Curriculum Evaluation
Readings:
- *Evaluation Handout
- Curriculum Evaluation - David Hamilton, Open Books, 1976
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- Educational
James Sanders,
Evaluation:
Wadsworth,
Theory
1973.
& Practice -
B
laine Worthen &
- Stenhouse, Chapter 8
SESSION VII
- An analysis of B.C. Curriculum Guidelines
- The curriculum production cycle
Readings-
- *Antoinette Oberg - The Curriculum iii B .C.
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Provincial
Curriculum Guidelines
- *Currjculum Production Handout
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SESSION VIII
- The Problem and Nature of Curriculum Change and Innovation
Reading:
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*Ray Bolam - The Management of Educational Change
*Eric Hoyle - Strategies of Curriculum Change
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*Rob Walker & Barry Macdonald - Curriculum Innovation at School Level
SESSION IX
- Organization Development in Schools
Readin gs :
- OD in Schools Handout
Richard Schmuck, Phillip Runkel et al. The Second Handbook of
Organization Development in Schools. Mayfield 1977
Runkel & Schmuck et al. Transforming the Schools Capacity for
Problem Solving, CEPM 1978.
SESSION
- The Implementation of Curriculum Programs
Reading:
- *Michael Fullan - conceptualizing Problems of
Curriculum Implementation
*Bruce Joyce - Messages from the Training Research
- Jack Walton (ed.) - Curriculum Organization and
Design. Wa.rdlock
1977
- Stenhouse, Chapters 12, 13 & 14.
- Implementation Handout
SESSION XI
- Improving your power as a Curriculum Developer
Readings:
*GjbbOflS/ phjlljpS
Handouts
SESSION XII
- The Teacher & Curriculum Development
Readings:
- Stenhouse, Chapters 9, 10, 11
- *Carl Rogers - An Education
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*Louis Rubin - Artistry in Teaching