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T1 - Foundations and scaffolding: exploring literature and practice to build a new curriculum framework for TU Dublin
AU - Gabaudan, Odette
PY - 2021/6/4
Y1 - 2021/6/4
N2 - Co-authors: Claire McAvinia, Olivia Freeman, Robert Tully, Colm O'Kane, Barry Ryan
In this paper, we present findings from an in-depth review of curriculum design literature and with a specific focus on technological universities. This review was undertaken for the TU Dublin Co-CREATE project, to support and underpin the building of a quality curriculum framework for the new technological university. Curriculum in higher education has been discussed in educational literature as a fluid and contested concept. It relates to product, often described as content and syllabus, but also process, socially and politically embedded with the potential for change in positive or less positive directions. We present our findings and insights, and the recommendations we have made to stakeholders in our institution. We reflect on the purposes of higher education in the 21st century, and consider the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they relate to TU Dublin’s mission and vision. We consider the place of graduate attributes, innovation, global citizenship and the impact of new technologies. We report on the development of curriculum frameworks and design at other technological universities, and how our experiences might be more diverse than those of traditional universities. We consider the impact of “connected” approaches to curriculum in research-intensive universities, and how these might be translated to the technological university context. We conclude with our proposals for a new curriculum framework as outcomes of this review of literature and practice.
AB - Co-authors: Claire McAvinia, Olivia Freeman, Robert Tully, Colm O'Kane, Barry Ryan
In this paper, we present findings from an in-depth review of curriculum design literature and with a specific focus on technological universities. This review was undertaken for the TU Dublin Co-CREATE project, to support and underpin the building of a quality curriculum framework for the new technological university. Curriculum in higher education has been discussed in educational literature as a fluid and contested concept. It relates to product, often described as content and syllabus, but also process, socially and politically embedded with the potential for change in positive or less positive directions. We present our findings and insights, and the recommendations we have made to stakeholders in our institution. We reflect on the purposes of higher education in the 21st century, and consider the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they relate to TU Dublin’s mission and vision. We consider the place of graduate attributes, innovation, global citizenship and the impact of new technologies. We report on the development of curriculum frameworks and design at other technological universities, and how our experiences might be more diverse than those of traditional universities. We consider the impact of “connected” approaches to curriculum in research-intensive universities, and how these might be translated to the technological university context. We conclude with our proposals for a new curriculum framework as outcomes of this review of literature and practice.
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