Strategic curriculum change : global trends in universities /

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Author / Creator:	Blackmore, Paul, 1954-
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:	xii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Society for research into higher education (SRHE) series SRHE Leverhulme.
Subject:	Education, Higher -- Curricula -- Cross-cultural studies. Curriculum planning -- Cross-cultural studies. Curriculum planning. Education, Higher -- Curricula. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8854925

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Other authors / contributors:	Kandiko Howson, Camille
ISBN:	9780415809320 (hardback) 0415809320 (hardback) 9780415809344 (paperback) 0415809347 (paperback) 9780203111628 (e-book) 0203111621 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 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. Chapters include:"--

Table of Contents:

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

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