Description
Book SynopsisThere is greater interest than ever before in higher education: more money is being spent on it, more students are registered and more courses are being taught. And yet the matter that is arguably at the heart of higher education, the curriculum, is noticeable for its absence in public debate and in the literature on higher education. This book begins to redress the balance.
Even though the term âcurriculumâ may be missing from debates on higher education, curricula are changing rapidly and in significant ways. What we are seeing, therefore, is curriculum change by stealth, in which curricula are being reframed to enable students to acquire skills that have market value. In turn, curricula are running the risk of fragmenting as knowledge and skills exert their separate claims. Such a fragmented curriculum is falling well short of the challenges of the twenty-first century.
A complex and uncertain world requires curricula in which students as human beings are placed at their centr
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I:The Possibility of Curriculum
1. Curriculum: a missing term
2. Understanding curriculum
3. Higher education for an age of uncertainty
4. Framing curriculum
Part II: Signs of Curriculum Life
5. A schema
6. Knowing
7. Acting
8. Being
Part III: Prospects for Engagement
9. Engaging the Curriculum
10. Engaging Students
11. Engaging Academics
Summary and Reflections
Appendices
Bibliography
Subject Index
Author Index
The Society for Research into Higher Education
