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Integrative Structural Objectives
Author(s) -
Reti Peter G
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1978.tb00224.x
Subject(s) - compartmentalization (fire protection) , argument (complex analysis) , curriculum , computer science , content analysis , mathematics education , fragmentation (computing) , task (project management) , engineering ethics , epistemology , management science , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , social science , management , engineering , enzyme , operating system , philosophy , economics , biochemistry , chemistry
This paper represents an attempt to bring together three lines of ongoing curriculum development: the structural analysis of course‐content, the use of ‘organizers’, and the formulation of objectives; and to relate these to the problems of compartmentalization of understanding that students on theoretical courses frequently encounter. Central to this paper is the argument that too much emphasis is currently being placed on vertical analyses of course‐content, and that this is aggravated by the fragmentation of content into numerous objectives stated as learning outcomes. A complementary approach is proposed, focusing upon the relationships between major coordinate course elements, and the use of task‐based objectives as a means of enabling students to consolidate these relationships.