Who framed the curriculum? An historical investigation
Professor R J W Selleck
First semester * Clayton
This subject will be concerned with the curriculum of Victorian primary and secondary schools from the 1850s to the present. It will focus on how curriculum has changed, both in the fields of study put before students, and the contents of the fields. It will look at the methods by which curriculum has been interpreted (eg through textbooks, school readers) and will examine curriculum changes that have taken place in an effort to understand what caused them to be successful. It will also be concerned with studying unsuccessful efforts at curriculum change and will look historically at public examinations (the VCE and its predecessors) as agents and opponents of curriculum change. Curriculum developments will be related to social, political and economic as well as educational forces.