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OverviewThe 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 league tables encourage students to see themselves as consumers and the university as a product, or even a 'brand'. The move has prompted renewed concern for some central educational questions, about both what is learnt and how. Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities explores the ways in which major universities across the world are reviewing their approaches to teaching and learning. It unites institution-level strategy with the underlying educational issues. The book is grounded in a major study of curriculum change in over twenty internationally-focused, research-intensive universities in the UK, US, Australia, The Netherlands, South Africa and Hong Kong. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Blackmore (King's College London, UK) , Camille B. KandikoPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780415809320ISBN 10: 0415809320 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 28 May 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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 changeReviewsAuthor InformationProfessor Paul Blackmore joined King's College London in November 2007 as Professor of Higher Education and Director of King's Learning Institute. Before this he established and directed a Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Warwick from 1995 for over ten years before becoming Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at Coventry University. Paul established a national Standing Conference on Academic Practice (SCAP) in 1996, a group with a shared interest in a holistic view of academic expertise. Dr Camille B. Kandiko joined King's Learning Institute at King's College London as a Research Associate in January 2008. She contributes to the Institute's research agenda by bringing an international perspective to research on curriculum change, assessment of PhD supervision, concept mapping pedagogy and the study of interdisciplinarity and interprofessionalism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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