Three Models for the Curriculum Development Process

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
James O'Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Development Process

scholarly journals Military Doctrine Development and Curriculum Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Walden
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Military Doctrine ◽  
Business World ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Management Curriculum

One of the complaints about the development of military doctrine over the past several decades is that “we arealways preparing to fight the last war.” One of the complaints that surfaced during a four year long study into thedevelopment of a common framework for supply chain management curriculum development was that the text booksused in the curriculum development process were out of date. In other words, we are preparing students for the realworld by teaching them about the historical business world and not the emerging business world. While thisapproach may work in the liberal arts such as history, it is in the words of Freire, doing a disservice to the studentsand not adequately preparing them for the real world. This study looks at a methodology for developing businessschool curriculums in particular. The study reviewed syllabi, job announcements, and textbooks for the top ratedschools and for those not in the Top 25. The gap between what industry is asking for and what schools are teaching ismuch wider for the not-Top 25 schools than for the top ranked schools.

scholarly journals Teacher’s Voices Crying in the School Wilderness: Involvement of Secondary School Teachers in Curriculum Development in Zambia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Innocent Mutale Mulenga ◽  
Christine Mwanza
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Embedded Design ◽  
Significant Patterns

In Zambia, curriculum development for primary and secondary schools is done centrally. The CurriculumDevelopment Centre (CDC), the institution placed with the responsibility of facilitating curriculum development,claims that the Zambian school curriculum is developed through a consultative and participatory approach throughcourse and subject panels where teachers and other stakeholders are represented. However, there has been noempirical evidence to suggest the roles that teachers, who are the major implementers of the same curricular, arerequired to play in the development process. This study therefore, sought to establish perceptions of secondaryschool teachers on their role in the curriculum development process in Zambia. The concurrent embedded design ofthe mixed methods approach was employed with the qualitative approach dominating the study while the quantitativewas used to add detail. Data from secondary school teachers was collected using questionnaires while interviewguides were used for Head teachers. Raw data collected from interviews and questionnaires was analyzed usingthemes and descriptive statistics and then arranged into significant patterns so as to easily interpret and understandthe essence of the data. The findings of the study clearly suggested that the majority of secondary school teachers inLusaka were willing to participate in the curriculum development process, especially in situational analysis, in theformulation of educational objectives, in setting up the curriculum project, and in the writing of curriculum materialssuch as textbooks. From the study it was concluded that teachers were aware of some of the roles that they couldplay in the curriculum development but were not adequately involved in the development process.

scholarly journals Teachers' Voice in Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-397
Author(s):  
Jianhua Luo ◽  
Gift Muyunda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
General Education ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Development Center

Curriculum Development in Zambia is highly centralized, with the Curriculum Development Center (CDC) being charged with developing the curriculum through consultative and participatory approaches through the course and subject panels where teachers are engaged. Nevertheless, there has been no empirical evidence to show how teachers are actively involved in the development process. This study aimed to investigate the phenomenon of teachers' involvement in the curriculum development process in Zambia. This study was qualitative and used a case study design approach. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview guide from secondary school teachers and headteachers. Raw data were collected through semi-structured interview forms from secondary school teachers and headteachers. The researcher analyzed the data using MAXQDA qualitative software to identify initial codes and generate emerging themes quickly. The results showed that secondary school teachers were dissatisfied with the present way of curriculum development, which insignificantly neglects them, and also, the majority of them have never participated in the development of the curriculum. Further, the results revealed that most of the secondary school teachers in Lusaka were willing to participate at any stage of the curriculum development in Zambia. This study concludes by arguing that secondary school teachers are significantly neglected to participate in the curriculum development in Zambia and recommends that the Ministry of General Education (MoGE) broaden the scope of secondary school teachers' participation in the curriculum developed through the Curriculum Development Center (CDC).

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