Prescription and Election
What is Lernfreiheit?
The students freedom to learn
What is “subject parturition”?
The disciplines we gradually understand become modern universities organized into unique and recognizable units. As the knowledge created in universities becomes more complex and differentiated, new themes have emerged to help define the boundaries of that knowledge.
The secularization of the university was not entirely welcomed, and neither was the liberalization of academic requirements. A president from the University of Chicago led the attack on distribution requirements during the 1930s and 1940s, and began to think about resurrecting more traditional curricula. The president also published The Higher Learning in America in 1936. He/She is
Robert M. Hutchins
The curriculum of the early American college was strongly influenced by the Medieval English university and the curriculum prepared students for a career in
Law or the Clergy
How did the civil rights movement in the mid to late nineteenth century affect university courses and the curriculum? (Key: Black students and feminism)
Women researchers clearly seek to change the university curriculum and correct the institutionalized sexism and misogyny in society. And the goal of black students is not only to establish a separate course but also to change the entire university curriculum system and solve the problem of racism in a wider range.
In Chapter 3, the authors mentioned that there was a group, which formed in 1960 to organize students around the social concerns of the period, primarily social justice issues and the Vietnam War. This group also created "free universities" in response to the idea of "politicizing" the university curriculum. The group is
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
What is the extracurricular? What does it include?
An activity in college pursed in addition to normal courses of study. Includes sports, drama, music and so forth.
How does humanity courses change in curriculum innovation?
Starting from the differentiation of disciplines, the social sciences followed up quickly, and the humanities disciplines began to be refined from the original disciplines, and received support from the academic community. Students in various fields in the university are becoming more and more professional in terms of career orientation and the demand for courses, making the humanities more fertile in the development of new courses and departments in the university.
Many educators use technology to support learning and teaching. Please name at least two Pros and Cons of using technology in education and explain why
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The Red Book
What are the reasons for the growth and emergence of interdisciplinary?
The further growth of higher education courses is due to the intersectionality between disciplines, the integration of two or more disciplines to form a new content area. Although there was controversy over interdisciplinary courses in the early days, with the movement of organizing new themes, the sub-fields of the subject began to develop and expand, and the subject itself became more and more interdisciplinary. As a result, the growth of disciplines is becoming more and more irregular, as each discipline divides itself into smaller and smaller parts, but is highly predictably patterned through social, philosophical, and methodological perspectives.
The four C's of the 21st Century skills are: Critical thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication. How can educators implement the 4 Cs in curriculum, instruction and assessment(s)? Please. give some examples.
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What did the distribution requirements require of students?
Forced students to select courses from particular categories.
What do you think is the rationale for the change?
(Open question and need some discussion. Need to talk about both growth and decline).
There are many factors affecting curriculum reforms. Please name two factors and give two examples to briefly explain how the factor affects curriculum changes.
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