The Development of a Useful Conceptual Framework in Curriculum Design

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  • Lois E. Graham

Abstract

The term "curriculum" currently includes all the means employed by a school or faculty to provide students with opportunities for desirable learning experiences. Instructional methodologies and procedures are included in the work of curriculum development. This is logical if the curriculum plan indicates the kind and variety of learning experiences recommended, since the identification of the latter will give direction to the methods to be employed in the teaching-learning process. Virginia Conley in Curriculum and Instruction in Nursing (1973: 336-37) defines curriculum design as a pattern of relationships among elements of a curriculum plan which has been chosen as desirable in terms of the overall objectives. She states further that a curriculum design is useful only if it has the capacity to solve curriculum problems and to make clear the base upon which curriculum decisions are made.

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1977-04-13

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