Educators
are faced with more challenges today than ever before. Besides being
interpreters and implementers of the curriculum, teachers need to understand
curriculum design, curriculum approaches and models, legislation, and
prescribed policies. They have to be able to analyse existing learning
programmes and resource material in order to prepare instructional designs,
with effective teaching, learning, and assessment in mind. Curriculum
studies: Development, interpretation, plan and practice offers sound, detailed, and practical direction with
reference to the CAPS, to help teachers to enhance teaching, learning, and
assessment.
This book
narrows the gap between the curriculum plan, instructional design, and teaching
practice. The views of Tyler, Stenhouse, Freire and others serve as a
theoretical grounding for a deeper understanding of the teacher’s role as
interpreter of the curriculum. Reference is also made to the influence of
contextual aspects, and practical guidance is provided in terms of curriculum
innovation and teaching practice. The topics covered in this book include the
following:
· The theoretical
framing of curriculum design
· Understanding
the curriculum in context
· Considering
policy documents during curriculum interpretation and implementation
· Practical
guidance for putting curriculum plans into practice: from the intended to the
enacted and theassessed
Curriculum
studies: Development, interpretation, plan and practice is aimed at
teachers in the General Education and Training (GET) and Further Education and
Training (FET) phases.
Prof. Elize du
Plessis holds
a DEd degree and has 28 years’ experience in distance teaching. She is
currently an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and
Instructional Studies at Unisa, and is also involved in curriculum development
in Unisa’s School of Teacher Education. She has made contributions to several
books and a variety of journals, and has presented papers at both national and
international conferences. She co-authored the first edition (The educator as
learning programme developer) and second edition (Curriculum
studies: Development, interpretation, plan and practice) of this book,
with Dr Celia Booyse.
Dr Celia Booyse
holds a DEd in
didactics with further specialisation in instructional science and assessment
practices. She is currently the Senior Manager for Statistical Information and
Research at Umalusi, the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further
Education. Her expertise lies in research methodology; developing research
tools, data analysis, curriculum and instructional studies, the application of
typologies, and effective teaching, learning, and assessment practices. She
worked for 21 years with a range of stakeholders in teacher development
programmes which included the development of course material.
Chapter 1: A theoretical framing of curriculum development
Chapter 2: Influences on the teacher’s interpretation of a curriculum
Chapter 3: Considering policy in curriculum interpretation and implementation
Chapter 4: Putting the curriculum plan into teaching practice: from the intended to the enacted and assessed
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