Action Research on Curriculum Development of Teacher Education Program in a Comprehensive University

The author would like to conduct a case study to investigate the approach to curriculum planning, the nature of curriculum change, the process of curriculum design, the strategy to curriculum implementation and the method of curriculum evaluation adopted by the this University to run its Teacher Education Program, as a case of school-based curriculum development project.As one member of the faculty in the Center for Teacher Education at this University, the author would like to adopt both an action research and a curriculum scholarship approach to conduct this case study.

There are two purposes in this research, the practical purpose is to contribute some critical observations on the process of curriculum development in this Teacher Education Program as an action basis to improve it; the theoretical purpose is to create a case study of the curriculum development in this Teacher Education Program as a scholarly basis for the establishment of a rationale of school-based curriculum development in Taiwan.