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Wong, Yew Leong
Curriculum making as design activity
2021, Wong, Yew Leong
Curriculum making is challenging work. The curriculum is a complex system involving multiple stakeholders with different, potentially conflicting, needs, motivations, and concerns. These different needs, motivations, and concerns are intricately interconnected, which means that no curriculum issue can be adequately addressed in isolation from the other parts of the curriculum. The complexity of the curriculum also means that curriculum making is necessarily an ongoing process that is never truly finished. How, then, can educators develop and implement a curriculum that addresses the concerns of all stakeholders involved? This chapter suggests that educators may find the methodology of design useful for curriculum making. It does this by seeing curriculum issues as design problems and attempts to show how some of the values and tools of designers may be applied to curriculum making.