The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of the curriculum revision policy in the state of NSW, Australia. It reformulates the future directions with which attempts to change the current policy of curriculum revision procedure shoul...
The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of the curriculum revision policy in the state of NSW, Australia. It reformulates the future directions with which attempts to change the current policy of curriculum revision procedure should be oriented. It seeks for answers to the needs of the change of the current system of curriculum development in Korea, in which curriculum experts and schoolteachers have problematized the current policy of the curriculum development that redesigns all over subject areas in a simultaneous way. The specific questions that this study has treated for the purpose at hand, are as follows: firstly, the nature of the institute which is charge of the policy of the curriculum revision; secondly, the main procedure of curriculum revision; thirdly, the cycle and extent of curriculum revision. This study discusses about such topics, with taking the extent of subject matter contents that each development procedure produces into consideration.
This study has examined the case of curriculum revisions conducted in the state of NSW, Australia. Through a comparative analysis of the foreign case, this study suggests implications with which the current policy of curriculum revision needs to be reconsidered, as follows. First, it is desirable to set aside a way of a 'periodical revision' of the national curriculum in which the national curriculum tracks a regular cycle for its revision. Second, it should be desirable to set aside a way of an 'overall revision' of the national curriculum in which the curriculum revision is implemented in all the school, levels, and subject matters. Third, it is necessary to constitute an institutional system in which the whole procedure of curriculum development could be open to the public.