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Tiêu đề
The value of curricular choice through student eyes
Tác giả
Dekker T.J.
Năm xuất bản
2021
Source title
Curriculum Journal
Số trích dẫn
5
DOI
10.1002/curj.71
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
In Europe, liberal arts and sciences undergraduate university programmes are typically characterised by a high degree of freedom of choice in the curriculum. Educators often present this as allowing students to design an integrated, interdisciplinary curriculum around their particular interests. This paper explores how students in such programmes understand and experience that freedom. It postulates a theoretical typology of reasons why one might value curricular freedom and, based on 59 interviews with students from 13 such programmes, considers what aspects of this typology resonate with students. The paper concludes that students overwhelmingly see freedom of choice in the curriculum as an opportunity to try out different disciplines to discover which ones they enjoy most. While this eventually does lead them to making tailored choices about their studies, their path to this goal is more meandering than is commonly understood. This insight allows programmes with a significant amount of freedom of choice to better support students in their educational development. © 2020 The Authors. The Curriculum Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association
Từ khóa
freedom of choice; higher education; liberal arts and sciences; open curriculum
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Nơi xuất bản
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Hình thức xuất bản
Article
Open Access
All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus