EDUCATION 471-4
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE
SUMMER SESSION 1980
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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Ted Aoki
Tuesday & Thursday, 4:30 - 8:30
1. Curriculum Development:
Evaluation.
Defining Intents, Resources, Activities and
Curriculum development will be examined in terms of related
activities of stating intents (goals, objectives), selecting and
developing instructional and learning resources, designing teacher
and student classroom activities, and judging the worth of Intents,
resources and activities.
2. Curriculum-as-Plan
and Curriculum-In-Use.
Curriculum seen as a plan in "imagined" teaching situations, and
curriculum seen In actual classroom situations will be explored.
3.
Approaches to Curriculum Development: As Means to Ends and as Means!
Ends Interaction.
Curriculum development as a logical linear view of means to ends
will be explored in conjunction with curriculum development as
the logic-In-use view of means/ends practice.
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Conflicting Conceptions of Curriculum: Probing Underlying Perspectives
of Curriculum Conceptions.
Conflicting conceptions of curriculum (e.g., technical view,
reconstructionist view, transcendental view, academic rationalism
view) will be probed to uncover basic metaphors of man and world
view underlying these conceptions. The search will be for the
tacitly held hidden curriculum.
5.
Planning Styles In Group Curriculum Development.
Often curriculum development is a group activity. Within this
theme planning based on styles of social relationships among
members of the planning group will be explored.
6.. Approaches to Curriculum Evaluation,
The typical curriculum evaluation question is "How well did the
students achieve the objectives of the curriculum?" The tunnel
viewed-ness of this approach will be discussed and alternative
approaches considered.
7.
Micro-Program
Development: A Practicum in Curriculum Development and
In-Process Curriculum Evaluation.
Students will engage in micro-program development as an action/
reflection process involving both development and in-process
evaluation activities.