Cooperative Curriculum Development: A Symposium

Abstract

A curriculum that “meets the needs and interests of the whole child,” such as the writers of the foregoing symposium envisage, does not come into being easily. The forces of tradition are against it. It requires the best efforts of many persons. These persons must, in general, learn to play unaccustomed roles, roles having new relationships to other roles. Moreover, these persons must play their roles continuously, for the desirable curriculum is not one that stays put. How professional personnel, pupils, and laymen can-assume their appropriate share of the responsibility for a developing curriculum is the subject of three succeeding articles. The fourth attempts to bring these groups into relationship as members of a planning team.