تحليلي بر سياست كاهش تمركز از برنامه ريزي درسي در آموزش عالي ايران: ضرورت ها و فرصت ها

Decentralization of Higher Education Curriculum System in Iran Revisited: Expected Attributes and Extended Opportunities

This article starts with a brief discussion about the relative neglect of issues related to higher education curriculum in the field of curriculum studies in Iran and at the global level. Accordingly, the present discussion is introduced as a step toward alleviating this disturbing situation. The writer, then, turns his attention to two different accounts of the nature of the field and the accompanying mission each assign to curriculum specialists. The reference, here, is to accounts known as »curriculum development» and »curriculum understanding». The author concludes that the two are not mutually exclusive and must be regarded as complementary. However, the theme discussed in this article is deemed more compatible with the first account. The main arguments pursued in this article follow the two aforementioned preliminary sections. It first attends to the attributes expected from curricula developed at university level and then explores the opportunities that decentralization affords the new generation of curricula developed under this new policy direction. The article ends with a brief concluding remark.