TITLE

Making Decisions about the Curriculum

AUTHOR(S)

Conrad, Clifton F.; Pratt, Anne M.

PUB. DATE

January 1983

SOURCE

Journal of Higher Education;Jan/Feb1983, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p16

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article presents a conceptual model of curricular decision making that might help to direct curriculum theory away from normative and prescriptive approaches and toward the development of more descriptive and explanatory theoretical constructs. The environmental inputs affecting curricular decision making, the curricular design variables from which decisions evolve, and the relationships implicit in the juxtaposition of input variables with curricular design variables represent the primary consideration that informed the literal and figurative modeling. In addition, the model represents an integration of many of the more global concepts incorporated in earlier models. Decision making theory and models of decision making per se have been incorporated into the design concept so that the emerging model in fact represents a new view of curricular decision making, a new concept of curricular design. The concept can have applied uses as well as contribute to an understanding of the evolving curriculum.

ACCESSION #

19170361

Tags: CURRICULUM planning;  DECISION making;  PROBLEM solving;  DECISION theory;  CURRICULA (Courses of study);  CURRICULUM research

 

Related Articles

• Does Faculty Participation Produce Curriculum Improvement? Wiles, Kimball // Educational Leadership;Mar1958, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p347 

  The article discusses the specific benefits to be derived through staff participation in policy formation in a program of curriculum improvement. For a number of years it has been asserted that faculty participation in decision making will bring about improved school programs. Faculty...

• Developing Problem-Solving Skills in Adolescents. Kinney, Lucien B. // Education Digest;May1952, Vol. 17 Issue 9, p39 

  The article stresses the importance of developing problem-solving skills in adolescents to prepare them for the future. It is certain that adolescents today will face many critical problems in the future. To prepare these people to solve their problems is the primary responsibility of the...

• Research and Curriculum Development: Some issues. Macdonald, James B.; Spodek, Bernard // Educational Leadership;Feb1966, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p417 

  The article presents issues related to the curriculum research and development. The up coming criterion of curriculum development has many positive points in its favor, the association of these research-development projects to the progress of curriculum adoption at the local level raises various...

• When are We Going to Study Curriculum in Curriculum Studies? KILBANE, JIM // Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy;Winter2008, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p59 

  The author considers the possibility of studying curriculum in curriculum studies. He argues that curriculum studies has expanded the definition of curriculum rather than destroyed it. In the author's view, the critical nature of curriculum studies became prominent so that a need for focus is...

• LISTENING TO CHILDREN: Using students' local environment experience in curriculum planning. Hacking, Elisabeth Barratt; Scott, William; Barratt, Robert; Talbot, Wayne; Nicholls, Dan; Davies, Kay // Environmental Education;Summer2005, Vol. 79, p8 

  This article focuses on Listening to Children, a project related to environmental education of children in Kingsfield School, Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, England. The project is investigating how children's local environmental perspectives can become a part of their school curriculum...

• Accountability and school obligation: a case study of society's expectations of the schools curriculum in Zimbabwe. Ndawi, O.; Peasuh, M. // South African Journal of Education;Aug2005, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p210 

  The expectations of society on the contribution of the school, through its curriculum, to social development and the justification for such expectations vis-a-vis the availability of the prerequisites for the proper implementation of the curriculum are examined. Professional expertise, financial...

• How Do Elementary School Teachers Plan Their Lessons? McCutcheon, Gail // Education Digest;Feb1981, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p55 

  This article deals with the question of how do elementary school teachers plan their lessons. In many schools, administrators could dispense with policies and practices based on rational-management models that are in conflict with teachers' natural ways of planning and acting. Surely, some...

• Freeing Creative Group Power. Shane, Harold G. // Educational Leadership;Dec1947, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p174 

  This article highlights a school's effort to provide more opportunities for teachers to plan together the means of solving instructional problems. A simple account of how the staff of this school attempted to bring their values, including a strong faith in the importance of doing things...

• International Advanced Diploma 2005.  // Manager: British Journal of Administrative Management;Feb/Mar2006, Issue 51, Special section p2 

  The article presents information on the syllabus for International Advanced Diploma course 2005 of the Institute of Administrative Management. An overview of its first out of four units is presented. The unit is titled "Administrative Systems in the Organization." The syllabus is aimed at...

Read the Article