Discussion Paper on Curriculum Development
This discussion paper is aimed at EU staff working in country Delegations. Its purpose is to help education task managers without Education background, in situations where curriculum reform is a major pillar of an overall reform process and/or a particular focus of support. It is intended to provide a brief overview of key issues, steps in a reform process and the frequent problems encountered in a curriculum reform programme.
This short guide is NOT a comprehensive treatment of curriculum development: it is intended as a brief and broad introduction to enable those that are neither education experts nor curriculum specialists to be better able to participate meaningfully in a curriculum reform process. It is aimed more at helping ask the right questions rather than provide the right answers.
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I believe there has to be a section on vision goals and objectives. Not necessarily for the curriculum development process but for the education institutions. For example - when students get out, or fall out after the compulsory portion of the education program, what will they be capable of doing? Be good artisans? Be good wousewives? Be good candidates to higher education? How does this meet the needs of the community? The needs of the students?
Also a section on the evaluation of the life path of the students within the context of each country. What will be the longevity of the specific curriculum? How many years ahead will this curriculum hold? How old will the students be? Will they be able to apply what they learned to make a dignified living within the communities where they came from and to which they will return?
I believe there needs to be a section on "living life in rural communities" and the skills a curriculum will impart onto the students. The overwhelming majority of the population live in rural communities. One has to focus on them in order to reduce poverty in ll developing countries.
Maybe this would fit in another paper but needs to be addressed.