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EDUCATION 471

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Spring 1980

KAMLOOPS - John Todd Elem. School

435 McGowan Avenue

Mondays from 4:30-8:15 p.m.

Instructor: David Hopkins

VERNON - Teacher Centre

15th Street

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, negotiated with

the instructor, which focus on the acquisition of competencies relevant to

curriculum development. These negotiated contracts will also form the

basis of the letter grade assigned at the end of the course.

Textbooks for the course include:

KNOWLES, Malcom; Self Directed Learning, Association Press, 1975

STENHOUSE, Lawrence; An Introduction of Curriculum Research and Development,

London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1975.

TYLER, Ralph W.; Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction, London:

The University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Further information about the course can be obtained from the instructor,

David Hopkins, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,

291-3614 (office phone).