Open AccessCurriculum development: panacea or poison?
Author(s) -
Terence N. Mitchell
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
tuning journal for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.15
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2386-3137
pISSN - 2340-8170
DOI - 10.18543/tjhe-2(2)-2015pp341-355
Subject(s) - curriculum , panacea (medicine) , theme (computing) , engineering ethics , process (computing) , curriculum development , bologna process , political science , higher education , element (criminal law) , pedagogy , sociology , engineering , computer science , medicine , law , alternative medicine , pathology , operating system
The November 2014 issue of the Tuning Journal appeared under the theme “Policy and Implementation: Actions for Curriculum Reform”. This article is a personal reflection on the role of curricula in achieving the aims of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond. Its background is the postulate that the most important goals of the Bologna Process are essentially the improvement of mobility and recognition at all levels of higher education. Curricula can be used to encourage mobility and recognition or to hinder them, but as an element of the education process they have been treated very unevenly during the development of the EHEA. Well-designed curricula are vital, but must not be misused. In the European climate of today, the development of regional, national or even international curricula is neither possible nor necessary.