A Study of Deliberation in Three Curriculum Projects

Abstract

This paper reports the results of a study of the deliberations of three university-based, subject-matter-oriented curriculum development projects. The primary reason for making the study was to explicate the procedures by which such groups determine the form and substance of the curriculum plans and materials they create. The study consisted basically in the designing of a content analysis system and in the application of it to transcriptions of discourse recorded in actual project meetings.