Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to identify the research approaches adopted in journal articles on curriculum issues; evaluate such articles in terms of the criteria associated with their particular research approach; prepare a critical literature review in a chosen curriculum issues area; build on such a review in order to plan an appropriate research study in their chosen area of concern.
Synopsis 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): 100%