%0 Journal Article
%T Curriculum Transformation in the Era of Reform Initiatives: The Need to Rethink and Re-conceptualize Content
%A Zongyi Deng
%J Journal of Textbook Research
%D 2010
%I National Academy for Educational Research
%X This article analyzes the complexity of transforming the curriculum ideals embodied in reform initiatives into syllabus documents, with a particular focus on the call for developing generic skills, values and attitudes. The central argument is that the transformation is fundamentally a conceptual endeavor requiring serious curriculum work which has to deal with issues concerning con-tent selection, organization and framing. It entails a need to rethink and reconceptualize curriculum content in view of curriculum ideals. Implications are discussed concerning the challenges of curriculum transformation in the current emergent curricular landscape in Singapore.
%K curriculum design
%K curriculum content
%K transformation
%U http://ej.nict.gov.tw/JTR/v03.2/J06v03n02-04.pdf