This paper discusses undergraduate ethics education from the point of view of a learning-outcomes-centered approach to curriculum design. It aims to identify the kinds of learning-outcomes that Ethics Across the Curriculum programs ought to aim at and be judged successful by. The first section explains the learning-outcomes-centered approach to designing and evaluating curriculum proposals. The...

This paper describes the process of developing a generic model for integration across the curriculum. Authors have introduced PBL approach in order to design the course work for the integrated curriculum in Science and Technology Education in the Teacher Education Programme. In this research the authors have envisaged a conceptual framework for implementation of integrated curriculum. The PBL a...

In need for a common language and a tool stimulating a more holistic and longterm approach to curriculum development the Academic Development Unit of the KU Leuven developed a conceptual scheme to be used as a mindmap by all stakeholders working on curricula. Key concepts underpinning various views on curriculum development were identified from literature. Next different conceptions on curricul...

The medical undergraduate curriculum at the University of Dundee has evolved in response to changing needs. The new curriculum, introduced in 1995, combines idealism and pragmatism. Underpinning it is the concept that the curriculum is an educational programme where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The concepts contributing to this are: the spiral nature of the curriculum, with i...

The complexity of planning requirements and aims for energy-efficient buildings has significantly risen, however the buildings are mostly planned with traditional planning methods based on sequential planning model. The main hypothesis states that successful energy-efficient and even -producing buildings can be realized only through more integrated, interdisciplinary and life-cycle oriented des...

Die Objektorientierung ist ein in der Softwarebranche seit langem bewährtes Werkzeug zur Beherrschung von Komplexität. Dies gilt sowohl für die interne Architektur der Software selbst als auch für die dem Nutzer der Software zur Verfügung gestellte Bedienphilosophie und Datenrepräsentation. Im Folgenden wird der Begriff der Objektorientierung aus der Sicht des Planers verwendet und fokussiert s...

This article provides an overview of research into the hidden curriculum. Following a consideration of functionalist, liberal and critical research studies, I focus in particular on recent insights which have arisen from postmodern thinking. In the light of postmodernism, I identify a personal perspective on how to study the hidden curriculum which moves beyond the established boundaries of dis...

The Status of Curriculum Planning in the Iranian Educational System A. R. Sharifi To assess the status of curriculum planning in the Iranian educational system, a sample of 35 elementary school curriculum experts, willing to cooperate, was given a questionnaire containing ten indices of quality for the elementary school curriculum, with a reliability of 0.81. The analysis of the colle...

this article is a short report of a research project carried out, upon the recommendation of the ministry of science, research and technology, by the department of librarianship and information science of meshed ferdowsi university between 2003-2004. the goal was to study and revise the current curriculum to bring it closer to the changing needs of the present society. the curricula of the u.s....