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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
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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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    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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    - +P.H.
    *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
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    - 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

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