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school-based curriculum development
d how recycling and reinforcement can be incorporated into the scheme
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e how balance and integration of different elements in the syllabus or of
different skills will be achieved
school-based curriculum development n
an educational movement which emerged in some countries in the 1960s
and which argued that the planning, designing, implementation and
evaluation of a programme of students’ learning should be carried out by
the educational institutions of which these students are members (i.e.
schools) rather than by an external institution, such as a state department
of education or a national curriculum center. The movement towards
school-based curriculum development reflects a more general philosophy
of learner-centredness and was an attempt to develop learning programmes
that were more relevant to students’ interests and needs by
involving schools, learners, and teachers in the planning and decision
making.
see also LEARNER-CENTRED-CURRICULUM
school-based management n
an approach to the management of schools advocated in some parts of the
world and that shifts responsibility for curriculum planning, budgets,
hiring, assessment and other aspects of schooling away from a central
administration such as a ministry or department of education, to a
school’s principal, teachers, parents and other members of the community.
In the US CHARTER SCHOOLs are an example of this approach.
They operate with some public funding but with considerable freedom
from state and local regulations. They are often managed by parents and
teachers operating under a charter that spells out what they plan to
accomplish.
school culture n
the patterns of communication, decision-making, interactions, role
relations, administrative practice and conduct that exist within a school
or educational institution. Schools, like other organizations, develop their
own ethos or environment and have their own distinctive ways of doing
things, which might be favourable or unfavourable to encouraging change
or innovation. The process of curriculum development or change often
includes changes to the school culture.
schwa n
also shwa
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