Contemporary analyses of curriculum issues
Coordinator: Professor A J Bishop
First semester * Clayton
The focus of this subject is the relationship between current issues in the curriculum and contemporary approaches to their analysis. The aim is to introduce students to different forms of contemporary analysis, their procedures and criteria, together with their implications for curricular decision making. While the analyses are of necessity theoretically based, the perspectives they offer have relevance for informing current curricular debates, as well as providing important research avenues. Through seminars, symposia and joint presentation, different staff members will elaborate these analyses and expose their contrasting contributions. Towards the end of the subject student members will make short presentations from the perspective of their own curriculum contexts.
Assessment
Assignment (8000 words)
Recommended texts
D'Cruz J V and Langford P E Issues in Australian education Longman Cheshire, 1990
Inglis F The management of ignorance: A political theory of curriculum Blackwell, 1985
Journal of Curriculum Studies