MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Semester 2002 ?

EDUC 471 - ?

Dr. David Piper

Curriculum Development: ?

Office: TBA

Phone: 291-3395

Theory and Practice ?

Email: dpiper@telus.net

Thursday 13:00-16:50 in EDB 7610 ?

D03.00

PREREQUISITE

60 credit hours

DESCRIPTION

This course will examine the foundations of curriculum development in its relation to teaching

practice. In the first two thirds of the course, we will examine the basic types of curriculum to be

found in schools and colleges together with the basic assumptions and beliefs underlying them.

We will also enter critical discussion about the possibilities of pairing curriculum models with

particular educational objectives and situations. One of the primary goals of this part of the course

will be to help students identify their own attitudes and beliefs about curriculum and schooling and

to help them develop a coherent philosophy of education as a basis for arguing and defending their

positions.

Following the foundational overview, the objective in the remaining third of the course will be to

familiarize students with some of the vital contemporary issues affecting curriculum development

and teaching practice. Among the topics to be addressed will be:

curriculum and information

technology, curriculum and cultural diversity,

and

curriculum and the changing nature

of the Self.

In this

section of the course, students will be divided into presentation groups on the basis of their topic

preferences. The instructor will provide each group with background readings on their chosen

topic.

ASSESSMENT

• In class group assignment and submitted version

of School Mission Statement and curriculum overview

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25%

• Group presentation on assigned topic

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30%

• Final take-home examination (short answers and essay)

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45%

REQUIRED READINGS

Miller, J.P. and Seller, W. (1990) Curriculum Perspectives and Practice. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman.

Photocopied articles: master copies to be provided by the instructor.