Strategic curriculum change : global trends in universities / edited by Paul Blackmore and Camille Kandiko.

"The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders - governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents - express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students. Many universities are reviewing their curricula at an institutional level, aware that they are in a competitive climate in which league tables encourage students to see themselves as consumers and the university as a product, or even a 'brand'. The move has prompted renewed concern for some central educational questions, about both what is learnt and how. Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities explores the ways in which major universities across the world are reviewing their approaches to teaching and learning. It unites institution-level strategy with the underlying educational issues. The book is grounded in a major study of curriculum change in over twenty internationally-focused, research-intensive universities in the UK, US, Australia, The Netherlands, South Africa and Hong Kong. Chapters include:"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The networked curriculum / Camille B. Kandiko and Paul Blackmore -- Achieving curriculum coherence : curriculum design and delivery as social practice / Saranne Weller -- Case study : a tradition of reform : the curriculum at Brown University / Katherine Bergeron -- Curriculum organisation and outcomes / Camille B. Kandiko and Paul Blackmore -- Transforming student learning : undergraduate curriculum reform at the University of Hong Kong / Amy B.M. Tsui -- Shaping the curriculum : a characteristics approach / Camille B. Kandiko and Paul Blackmore -- Assessment in curriculum change / Emma Medland -- Change : processes and resources / Paul Blackmore and Camille B. Kandiko / People and change : academic work and leadership / Paul Blackmore and Camille B. Kandiko -- Case study : the whole-of-institution curriculum renewal undertaken by the University of Melbourne, 2005-2011 / Richard James and Peter McPhee -- Supporting change through development and evaluation / Paul Blackmore and Camille B. Kandiko -- The physical and virtual environment for learning / Paul Blackmore and Camille B. Kandiko -- Case study : curriculum structure as a key variable affecting performance in higher education : the case of South Africa / Ian Scott -- Towards more successful curriculum change / Camille B. Kandiko and Paul Blackmore.