1st Edition

Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities Global Trends

By Paul Blackmore, Camille B. Kandiko Copyright 2012
230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders – governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents – express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students. Many universities are reviewing their curricula at an institutional level, aware that they are in a competitive climate in which... Read more

1. The Networked Curriculum  2. Achieving curriculum coherence: Curriculum design and delivery as social practice  3. A tradition of reform: The curriculum at Brown University  4. Curriculum Organisation and Outcomes  5. Transforming Student Learning: Undergraduate curriculum reform at The University of Hong Kong  6. Shaping the curriculum: a characteristics approach  7. Assessment in curriculum change  8. Enabling change: processes and resources  9. People and change: Academic work and leadership  10. The whole-of-institution curriculum renewal undertaken by the University of Melbourne, 2005-2011  11. Supporting change through development and evaluation  12. The physical and virtual environment for learning  13. Curriculum structure as a key variable affecting performance in higher education: The case of South Africa  14. Towards more successful curriculum change

Biography

Professor Paul Blackmore is Professor of Higher Education and Director of King's Learning Institute, King’s College London, UK.

Dr Camille B. Kandiko is Research Fellow at The King's Learning Institute, King’s College London, UK.