Curriculum Design

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the influence of different education systems and conceptual frameworks on curriculum design.
• Critically analyse and reflect on the ideological influences on curriculum design and development.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of ideologies associated with the curriculum, its implementation, management and assessment.
• Organise and articulate a reasoned line of argument in writing.

Topics normally covered in this module will include:

• The nature of the curriculum;
• Curriculum design and curriculum theory;
• The structure of knowledge;
• Models of the curriculum that relate to the ideology of curriculum as content and education as transmission;
• Models of the curriculum that relate to the ideology of curriculum as produce and education as instrumental;
• Models of the curriculum that relate to the ideology of curriculum as process and education as development;
• The English National Curriculum and its subjects;
• Implementing and maintaining curriculum;
• Ways of assessing curriculum;
• Insights into curriculum design in a globalised context.

Teaching and learning methods

This module is delivered through the pattern of a lecture followed later by a seminar or workshop that is designed to explore the content of the lecture in more detail. You will therefore participate in seminar discussions and workshop activities, preparation for which may take place between the lecture and the seminar or workshop.

This module is taught through two 1 hour sessions each week, plus a session preparing for the assessment.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Kelly, A.V. (2009). The Curriculum: Theory and Practice. London: Sage.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External