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Curriculum
course outline
Curriculum: Context, Change and Development:
Aims
§ To examine curriculum differences and developments in terms
of educational aims, traditions,
values, and processes.
§ To improve students' understanding of the curriculum of
their own education system, and to look
at reason for differences between curricula.
§ To enable students to set curriculum change in its social
context, and to evaluate curriculum
development in the light of theories about society, knowledge
and learning.
The main emphasis will be on learning in schools, but the
ideas are relevant to many other forms of
education, and participants from different backgrounds are
welcomed.
Teaching
The course will include presentations and explanations by
the tutor, and many
opportunities for discussion. Students are encouraged to contribute
from their
experience of a particular education system to the general
discussion.
Assessment
One essay of around 4500 words. Students are able to choice
their own theme, with
guidance by the tutor. You are encouraged to relate ideas
from the course to an
education system with which you are familiar, or to a particular
age group or
subject.
Content
The course will consider questions such as:
§ How are decisions made about what to teach and learn? By
whom? (e.g. the state, teachers, pupils,
the influence of parents)
§ How does the curriculum differ in different countries, and
why does it change? Are there different
versions of 'history' or 'science', for example?
§ What do we mean by 'literacy', for example? Is the emphasis
on basic skills, or reading for
pleasure, or critical understanding, or media literacy?
§ Since schools can't teach the whole of human knowledge and
culture, what are the priorities? Are
they decided by skills needed for work, or for citizenship,
or personal growth? What is the
importance of leisure, or ethics, or political belief?
§ How is curriculum defined: as a product, a process, as list
of content or skills, as broad aims or
detailed objectives? How are teachers held 'accountable'?
What is the relationship between
curriculum, context, pedagogy and assessment?
§ What is the relationship between thinking, emotions, social
relation, and physical skills?
§ Does the curriculum consist of a set of separate subjects,
or does it fit together more coherently?
§ Does education serve to reinforce existing values and social
structures, or develop critical thinking?
How do we reconcile the need to pass valuable knowledge and
skills to a new generation, against
the need for problem-solving and creativity in a fast-changing
world?
§ How can education respond to social inequalities? How can
schools better meet the needs of
working-class children, or the rural poor, or indigenous peoples?
How can racism or sexism be
opposed? How can the curriculum be modified for children with
learning needs, or for very talented learners?
§ How can we design a curriculum for the future? What do we
mean by the 'information society'?
What is the role of Information Technology? What is the impact
of globalisation on the curriculum?
How do we respond to problems of ecology, poverty, or war?
§ How is curriculum developing now in response to all these
issues? What can we learn from good
examples of curriculum reform across the world?
Introductory reading
M Apple (1990) Ideology and curriculum. London: Routledge
D Barnes (1982) Practical curriculum study. London: RKP
I Goodson (1985) Social histories of the secondary curriculum.
London: Falmer
I Goodson (1998) Studying school subjects. London: Falmer
C March (1997) Key concepts for understanding curriculum.
London: Falmer
B Moon and P Murphy eds (1999) Curriculum in context. London:
Chapman
C Paechter ed (2000) Changing school subjects: power, gender
and curriculum. Buckingham: Open
University Press
论文要求
论文水平：1外国名牌大学硕士论文
2论文要经答辩及发表
论文选题范围：
Choose any area of education (eg:music,nurse education,early
primary educaton) within an education system you are familiar
with.
Examine it in terms of issues chosen from those covered on
the course (e.g. some of the questions in the course outline).
Examples；
What is the impact of the state defining the curriculum in
Zimbabwe? How does this affect what is studied in schools,
and the freedom of the learner to raise issues of concern?
What is the impact of globalization on Universities education
in China? ( including both positive and negative features
of globalization )
How can the curriculum in the Virgin Islands be modernized
whilst respecting traditional values, cultures and social
patterns?
论文评估标准
1 knowledge and understanding of concepts
2 knowledge and use of the literature
3 Academic discourse (quality of writing, expression of ideas,
conventions of referencing)
4 Critical reflection on theory and practice
5 Application of theory to practice (i.e.) understanding of
implications of ideas for practice)
其他要求：1用英文撰写
2观点要求有创新性
3字数4500-6000
4 引用他人观点时，要标明出处，精确到文献名称，作者名，第几页。
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