Curriculum Transformation in the Era of Reform Initiatives: The Need to Rethink and Re-conceptualize Content

改革年代中的課程轉化：再思考與再概念內容

10.6481/JTR.201012.0093

鄧宗怡(Zong-Yi Deng)

課程設計 ； 課程內容 ； 轉化 ； curriculum design ； curriculum content ； transformation

教科書研究

3卷2期（2010 / 12 / 15）

93 - 113

英文

本文分析教育改革背景中，理想課程轉化為課程大綱的複雜關係，特別關注在提倡提升共通能力、價值觀、態度三面向。本文認為課程轉化，從根本上說來，是概念性的工作，轉化的過程需要嚴謹的課程作業，包括內容選擇、組織、轉換。因此，課程轉化必須從理想課程的角度重新思考與重新概念化課程內容。文章也一併討論新加坡新的一輪課程改革中課程轉化面臨的挑戰。

This article analyzes the complexity of transforming the curriculum ideals embodied in reform initiatives into syllabus documents, with a particular focus on the call for developing generic skills, values and attitudes. The central argument is that the transformation is fundamentally a conceptual endeavor requiring serious curriculum work which has to deal with issues concerning content selection, organization and framing. It entails a need to rethink and re-conceptualize curriculum content in view of curriculum ideals. Implications are discussed concerning the challenges of curriculum transformation in the current emergent curricular landscape in Singapore.

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