The core curriculum is a dependent variable

"Let us pass the traditional question of what should be the content of the core curriculum for a PhD psychologist. Rather we might try to identify and examine some of the major issues and concepts that lie behind the decisions made by any department when it prescribes its common core. The speci...

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Published in:The American psychologist 1958-02, Vol.13 (2), p.56-58
Main Author: Ericksen, Stanford C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Curriculum
Higher Education
Human
Medical Education
Psychology Education
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Summary:"Let us pass the traditional question of what should be the content of the core curriculum for a PhD psychologist. Rather we might try to identify and examine some of the major issues and concepts that lie behind the decisions made by any department when it prescribes its common core. The specific entries in a core curriculum represent the dependent variables telling us about the independent or controlling variables in the PhD learning situation." 11 dimensions along which decisions are made by each psychology department conducting its own educational affairs are listed and discussed. These are: controlled curriculum vs. laissez faire course selection, professional control vs. institutional freedom, early vs. late selection, generalization vs. specialization, job market orientation vs. internal criteria, science and research vs. practitioner or service, content vs. method, empirical and quantitative vs. conceptual and qualitative, interdisciplinary vs. "pure" psychology, expansion vs. restriction of curriculum, eclectic vs. doctrinaire.
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/h0047866