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Students as Designers of Their Own Life Curricula
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20 January 2011

The idea of life curriculum came as a result of looking back at my past in relation to my studies in curriculum. I learn by reconstructing my past in the present to influence my future, and students, indeed everyone, can as well do so. Constructing a curriculum of life is also a continuous process of building, renewing, refining, and adapting self-defining values, ideals, beliefs, ideas, ethics,
and convictions to the growing changes in the environment. Students obtain different curricula from various environments. Through a methodic process of thoughtful deliberation, students can reconstruct and integrate the different curricular experiences of their lives. To help students achieve this, there is the need to broaden the conception of curriculum to include life experiences in a way that interweaves school and outside school curriculum in the classrooms. And this can transform curriculum into a process of constructing life.
Acknowledgments.
Summary.
Foreword; William H. Schubert
Chapter 1. My Life Experiences
Chapter 2. Preliminary Considerations
Chapter 3. Curricular Considerations from Which Life Curriculum Evolves
Chapter 4. Life Curriculum
Chapter 5. Reconstruction of Experience in Education Through Thoughtful Deliberative Action
Chapter 6. Life Curriculum Revisited
Chapter 7. Implications in Four Modern Philosophical Epistemologies for Life Curriculum
Chapter 8. Precolonical Africa as a Basis for Life Curriculum
Chapter 9. Conclusions
Chapter 10. My Publications Revisted
References
Author
Index