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EDUCATION 1471-4

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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE

SUMMER SESSION 1980

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Ted Aoki

Tuesday & Thursday,

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4:30 - 8:30

1.

Curriculum Development: Defining intents, Resources, Activities and

Evaluation.

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.

4.

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.

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Micro-Program Development: A Practicuni 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.