Steven R. Repe
Presenter:
Curriculum Change
and Innovation
MAEM 601- Curriculum Development

Modification and almost unconscious
process that involves reworking familiar
elements into new relationship.
Curriculum Change
Curriculum Innovation
a willed intervention, which results in the
development of ideas, practices, belief
that are fundamentally new.

Curriculum Change vs.Innovation
CurriculumInnovation CurriculumChange
New curriculum , teaching
the subject in new way.
It will affect the subject
taught. An alternative
book.

Innovation isSociocultural
not GeographicalIssue
Classroom
Innovation
Institutional Political
Educational Administrative

CurriculumChangesfor Equilibrium
Government
Intervention
Society's Value Administrative
Process
Technological
Changes
Knowledge
Explosion
DRIVING FORCES

CurriculumChangesfor Equilibrium
Fear of the
Unknown
Threats to Power Limited Resources
Obsolete Traditional
Vlaues
Restraining Forces

IssuesinCurriculum
ChangeandInnovation
Socio Political
Issues
Economic Change Technology
Advancement

A ChangingSociety
• TECHNOLOGY • GLOBAL CULTURE AND ETHNICITY
• AGEING POPULATION • SUSTAINABILITY
• GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR • CHANGING ECONOMY

Intent
Insight
Ideation
Innovation
Implementation

Intent
Insight
Ideation
Innovation
Implementation

Intent
Insight
Ideation
Innovation
Implementation

Intent
Insight
Ideation
Innovation
Implementation

CONCLUSION
Intent
Insight
Ideation
Innovation
Implementation
Innovation is a time bound phenomenon
and change is always constrained by
sociocultural factors, individuals
psychological profiles, and the attributes of
that potential adopters perceive a given
innovation to possess.