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| Preface | |
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| The Authors | |
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| Curriculum: An Academic Plan. | |
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| The Need for a Definitional Framework | |
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| Defining Curriculum as an Academic Plan | |
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| Contextual Influences on Academic Plans | |
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| Constructing Plans: Curriculum Development | |
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| Evolution of the Academic Plan Concept | |
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| Advantages of the Academic Plan Model | |
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| External Influences: Sociocultural Context. | |
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| Patterns of Curriculum Debate | |
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| Evolving Educational Purposes | |
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| Debating General Education and Specialization | |
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| Learners: An Emphasis on Access | |
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| Content Debates: Prescription vs. Choice | |
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| Instructional Process: Occasional Innovation | |
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| Evaluation Debates: Emphasis on Quality Control | |
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| Influences and Potential Reforms | |
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| Internal Influences: College and University Contexts. | |
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| Institutional Influences | |
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| Unit-Level Influences | |
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| Emerging Internal Influences | |
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| Converging Influences | |
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| Internal Influences: Academic Fields. | |
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| Characterizing Academic Fields | |
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| Differences in Course Planning | |
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| Seeking Academic Community | |
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| Building on the Strengths of Academic Fields | |
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| Creating Academic Plans. | |
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| Course Planning | |
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| Program Planning | |
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| College-Wide Planning | |
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| Systematic Design Models | |
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| Sharing Responsibility for Curriculum Design | |
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| Learners. | |
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| Learner Influences on Course Planning | |
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| Learner Influences on Program Planning | |
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| Learner Influences on College Planning | |
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| Multiple Perspectives on Learning | |
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| Learners and Learning Processes | |
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| Understandings of Learning and Knowledge | |
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| Learning in Academic Fields | |
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| Considering Learners in Curriculum Design | |
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| Instructional Processes. | |
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| Teaching Styles | |
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| Contextual Influences on Courses and Programs | |
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| Expanding Choices Among Instructional Processes | |
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| Teaching for Intentional Learning | |
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| Reflecting on Planning and Teaching | |
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| Evaluating and Adjusting Academic Plans. | |
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| Defining Evaluation and Assessment | |
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| Evaluating and Adjusting Course Plans | |
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| Evaluating and Adjusting Program Plans | |
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| College-Level Evaluation | |
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| Evaluating Evaluation | |
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| Responding to Accountability Demands | |
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| Administering Academic Plans. | |
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| Curriculum Leadership and Administrative Roles | |
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| Models and Strategies for Curricular Change. | |
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| Evolution, Adaptation, and Strategic Change | |
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| Scope of Curricular Change | |
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| Models of Change | |
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| Using Multiple Strategies for Curricular Change | |
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| Learning to Change in Academic Organizations | |
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| Maintaining Change | |
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| Academic Plans in Context | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |