Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13419
Title: Curriculum Design for Developing Capacity to Deal with Complex Issues: Theoretical Perspectives
Contributor(s): Stewart, Cherry  (author); Khan, Ashfaq A  (author); Hedberg, John (author)
Publication Date: 2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4205-8.ch001
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13419
Abstract: This chapter explores mental complexity theory in relation to curriculum design and development, and its relationship to implementation as interactive distance learning. The authors propose that a particular philosophical mindset leads a curriculum designer to choose learning designs that fit within a particular thinking paradigm. The learning strategies designers choose in constructing the curriculum impact significantly on how their learners approach and gain from these experiences. The study explores philosophical paradigms relating to how a curriculum might be conceived and communicated. The authors offer a framework for creating curriculums that help learners to develop skills, knowledge and attitudes appropriate for dealing with greater degrees of intellectual, social and environmental complexity. In this argument, different forms of mental complexity are linked to three learning metaphors and learning design strategies associated with distance learning. The reflections of a curriculum designer demonstrate a changing mental structure. The authors suggest that a curriculum should work on and improve learners' brain agility so they can deal with new and complex issues without being dependent on pre-determined knowledge or solutions.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Outlooks and Opportunities in Blended and Distance Learning, p. 1-16
Publisher: IGI Global
Place of Publication: Hershey, United States of America
ISBN: 9781466642058
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
130203 Economics, Business and Management Curriculum and Pedagogy
130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl Economics, Business and Management)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930202 Teacher and Instructor Development
930302 Syllabus and Curriculum Development
930102 Learner and Learning Processes
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 160303 Teacher and instructor development
160301 Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/197628335
Series Name: Advances in Mobile and Distance Learning (AMDL) Book Series
Editor: Editor(s): Belinda Tynan, Julie Willems, Rosalind James
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
UNE Business School

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