The Japanese Journal of Curriculum Studies
Online ISSN : 2189-7794
Print ISSN : 0918-354X
ISSN-L : 0918-354X
A study on teacher's role performance in the curriculum development : From The viewpoint of SBCD (School-Based Curriculum Development)
Young-keun Jeong
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1999 Volume 8 Pages 59-72

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The purpose of this study is to examine the process of the teacher's role performance based on the viewpoint of SBCD which places teachers as developer. The viewpoint of SBCD in this study is that 「the place of the curriculum development is school, the main person to develop it is teacher, and it is the idea to develop the curriculum according to the actual situation of school」. Thereason is that the idea of SBCD is to try to move the decision-making authority of curriculum from the center to each school. In order to clarify the process of teacher's role performance from the point of SBCD, this study focuses on the interactive model as the alternative to the objective model. Examining this model, I establish 1) the teachers as the centralrole to the practice of interaction 2) the practice of situational analysis by teachers, as two points. I established the following hypothesis based on the framework of the above analysis. 1) Teachers would reach on consensus by way of interaction with colleagues, when judging their roles to develop curriculum of school level. 2) It is the actual situation of school, not the direction of a certain person that teachers depend on the criterion when they judge thir roles. I examined of the use of the elective subject as an example, and the following is the result. 1) Teachers participate in the process of school's decision-making, and through this kind of discussion to decide the method of use and course establishment, they argue about their roles, judge the decided agreement as their roles, and carry out. The criterion of the judgment about the role of teacher isbased on the analysis of school situation such as the school facilities, the number of teachers, and the instruction of compulsory subjects. 2) Teachers analyze the situaton of curriculum resources by way of the interaction with the students, and decide the feasible course content and the method of the development. Further- more, Teachers judge and carry out their roles based on the analysis of the idea of collegues and the president's leadership, the atmosphere of school when they decide a certain method of the development.
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