I just finished reading/skimming the three articles in preparation for this weeks class and thought i'd share a few thoughts. (Not too many as i want to save some thoughts and questions for class discussions)
On the Meaning of Curriculum Design struck a chord with me as I mentioned my previous experience in Thailand working with curriculum and programming. I was about half done reading the article and i found myself saying "Ok..makes sense. So what I was doing Thailand was actually more curriculum design writing than writing a new curriculum." I did very little work with the content matter or objectives but spent most of my time focusing on how to organize the documents in a user friendly way with clearly outlined activities that could be used (not mandatory) if teachers were struggling for ideas.
Just when i was prepared to think of myself as a curricular designer instead of a curricular writer then article ends by saying curriculum design can't really be defined "until agreement is reached on the meaning of terms, particularly of 'curriculum.'"
Like i said. Don't want to waste all my observations regarding the articles...just wanted to a few initial thoughts out there.
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