The Curriculum as a Work of Art: Conceptualizing Change in the Context of Social Transformation

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 11 - 26, 15.12.2015

Doug Boughton

https://doi.org/10.18039/ajesi.26054

Cited By: 2

Abstract

Social transformation changed the curriculum regarded the art education. Artists to create a work of art offers significant insights into the creative process required to undertake curriculum transformation focusing on particular social and cultural context that constitutes their life-world. Curriculum transformation in this paper focusing on six key elements of curriculum; content, participants, rationale, resources, implementation, and outcomes. The virtue of a curriculum is a decisions made about each of the elements. But the most important one is to connect elements and the overall vision produced by the sum of all those decisions in the current social and educational context.

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