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EDUCATION 471-4

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND APPLICATION

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DESCRIPTION: Exploration

development

of

with

curriculum

applications

theory

at

and

different

processes

levels

of

and in several subject areas.

COURSE INFORMATION:

Instructor

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Dates

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Days ?

Times

E. L. Simpson

RANGE OF TOPICS:

REQUIRED READING:

5 July-13 Augnst 1976 Monday, Wednesday 10:30 - 13:20

Tuesday

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13:30 - 15:20

Participants in this coursewill exainine

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v

ëbãsiccon-

ceptions of curriculum (the development of cognitive

Processes, technology, self-actualization or consummatory

experience, relevance and social reconstruction, academic

rationalism) and their application in school programs

of various kinds. Criticism of curricula and alterna-

tive approaches to choices of subjects to be taught and

methodology to be utilized in the present and the

future will be discussed and attempted.

Eisner, E. W. and Valiance, E. (Eds.) Conflicting

r Conceptions of Curriculum. Berkeley, Ca.: McCutchan,

1974.

Tanner, D. and Tanner, L. Curriculum Development: Theory

into Practice. New York: Macmillan, 1975.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

Class participation

Term paper

Final exam