Curriculum design and development

The Polifonia Tuning working group has developed several tools for higher music education institutions in order to assist the institutions with the requirements proposed by the Bologna process. The group has studied issues related to curriculum design and development, and therefore has also dealt with three key elements that have been much talked about in European Higher Education in recent years and that have been given additional impetus by the Bologna Process:  Learning Outcomes, Credit Points and Quality Assurance.

The working group developed a handbook on “Curriculum Design and Development in Higher Music Education”. The handbook is intended as a short guide for those who work in conservatoires and are involved with organising the types and patterns of teaching that go on there. Its primary focus is upon the way that, in recent years, Curriculum Design and Development have become more consciously and elaborately embedded in the way the learning and teaching in conservatoires is run. The handbook addresses issues such as:

• Curriculum design and development – what is it and what is it for?
• Curriculum design: the holistic approach
• The use of learning outcomes in curriculum design
• The use of credit points in curriculum design
• Reviewing and updating a designed curriculum: curriculum development

Downloadable documents
Curriculum Design and Development in Higher Music Education	English

More information can be found in this section of the website on:
Learning Outcomes for Higher Music Education and Polifonia/Dublin Descriptors
The Use of Credit Points and Modules in Music Study
 

For more information on Quality Assurance, please refer to the Quality Assurance section of this website.