Please address both topics. Support your thoughts with citations/references.
Curricular Design:
First is the model for curricular development. Does the model your textbook has presented make sense to you? Besides this model, what are the other models for curricular design? What are their strengths and weaknesses, especially for healthcare delivery? Can you see them being used in academia? If you are working within the healthcare industry (or plan to) and not academia, do you see how a curricular model can be applied to your situation? Which one?
Curricular Process:
Second, is all about having a basic understanding of how the curricular process works. You are faculty at a university with a school of nursing (or substitute your discipline). Enrollment is 150 undergraduate and 85 graduate students. The teaching staff comprises 12 full-time faculty and 20 part-time faculty. Approximately 30 percent of faculty members were hired in the previous three years.
The undergraduate curriculum was first implemented more than 15 years ago. Since then, there have been minor curriculum revisions, but the philosophical approaches, goals, and basic structure of the largely behaviorist curriculum have remained unchanged. Although faculty have attended workshops and conferences on new and evolving educational paradigms, some are generally comfortable with the present curriculum. Some act more in accordance with a caring, humanistic-educative approach, and others are strong feminists. Some advance ideas of social justice in the courses they teach.
Recently, faculty were shocked when, for the first time, nearly 20 percent of graduates failed their state boards. Those graduates were very public on social media and other avenues in voicing their displeasure with the School. Along with this, there has been informal feedback from a few employers that the graduates are having difficulties beyond those experienced by new graduates of other schools.
The School is three years away from an accreditation review, and your Dean thinks that the time might be right for a discussion about curriculum development. The Dean calls a special meeting to discuss the possibility of curriculum development.
1. What factors or influences would propel the nursing faculty toward curriculum development? What might be the objections and responses to these?
2.What could be the sources of support for curriculum development? Sources of resistance?
3.How would the Dean’s initiation of the idea of curriculum development influence faculty members’ decision about whether or not to proceed?
4. What is a suitable time frame for curriculum revision in light of the reasons for curriculum development and the upcoming accreditation review?
5.How would you assess faculty members’ acceptance of the need for curriculum development and their readiness to support the process?
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