Ed4001 Visions and models
of curriculum design and management.
This course presents the
educational main current positions, both theoretical and practical, towards
the end of twentieth century in order to find an equilibrium between tradition
and change and to elaborate a proposal suitable to the socio-cultural context
where our student are practitioners. Planning, design and management of a course
are studied from the point of view of current paradigms in Education. Problems
related to curriculum, classroom, relation between learning and teaching, new
and old role of teachers, innovations in different educational models (open,
distance, online models) are topics to be discussed.
Objectives:
- Analyze the most important
paradigms, which are the foundations of design and management educational
models at the end of 20th century.
- Reflex upon design and
contextualization alternatives in the light of the requirements that different
realities demand at micro and macro levels.
Content:
- Today's institutional
and curricular visions
- Overview of planning,
curricula and development in the last twenty years (1980 -2000)
- Polemics about educational
design and management
- Modernity and Post modernity:
Debate on current models
- Free market economy,
democracy and educational equality ¿which are the alternatives, threads and
limitations?
- Schooling between globalization
and localism
- Knowledge fragmentation
vs. integration of knowledge ¿what are its consequences concerning educational
design and curriculum?
- Centralized, decentralized,
sequencialized and flexible learning processes.
- Educational management
seen form efficiency point of view
Bibliography:
- Hargreaves, A. 1995).
Changing teachers, changing times. Teachers College Press.
- Pérez Gomez, A. (1999.
La cultura escolar en la sociedad neoliberal. Ed Morata.
- Reigeluth, Ch.M. (1983)
Instructional Design theories and models.Volume I. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates
- Reigeluth, Ch.M. (1999).
Instructional Design theories and models.Volume II. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates
- Solano, F. (2000) Educar,
para que. Ed.Limusa