本研究旨在探討目前學習領域課程小組課程決定的運作情況,並以國中語文領域國文科為例來加以說明。研究目的包括探究國文科課程小組課程決定的議題、課程決定的產生方式、影響課程決定的因素,以及課程決定過程中的權力運作,進而歸納研究結果,重新確認學習領域課程小組的定位與功能,提供國文科課程小組進行課程決定時的參考。研究者依據課程決定相關文獻的閱讀,做為進行現場研究的理論基礎,並於研究過程中探究理論與實務之間的落差。本研究採用質的個案研究法,研究對象為三所台北市國中的語文領域國文科課程小組,以觀察、訪談、文件分析做為蒐集資料的方式。研究歸納出的發現有:一、課程小組課程決定的議題,多與行政方面交辦事項有關;二、課程決定事務的性質,影響課程決定的方式;三、課程小組的課程決定受環境與教師的因素影響較大;四、課程小組的課程決定尚未達到充分授權的理想;五、課程小組的定位與功能尚待進一步的確認與落實。 本研究提出以下建議:一、就發揮課程小組的功能方面,需重新思考課程小組的定位,並養成團體合作的習慣,促進教師文化的改變,以及鼓勵召集人發揮課程領導的角色;二、就提升課程決定自主權方面,課程小組教師由個人的教學自主權擴大到團體的課程自主權,而學校行政方面,也須給予課程小組教師適時的支持;三、就激發教師的課程意識方面,教師應扮演積極的角色,並對「課程決定」的實質內涵能有進一步的深思與體認;四、就後續研究方面,可探究教師非正式的互動如何影響正式會議上的課程決定,以及教師如何落實課程小組的課程決定。
Taking the Curriculum Team of Chinese Language Art as an example, this study aims at examine the operational issues in curriculum decision-making. The purposes of this study are to explore the factors of “what”, “how”, “why”, and “who” in the process of curriculum decision-making at department level. To achieve the research goads, the researcher takes literature review as the theoretical foundation for field study, and tried to probe into the gaps between theory and practice. Adopting the case study approach, three junior high schools in Taipei City were invited to participate in this study. For data collection, observation, interview, and document analysis were the major techniques applied to clarify the related issues. Based on the study, the research findings include: First, the agenda of curriculum decision-making were related to the tasks assigned by school administration; Second, the nature of curriculum agenda influenced the way that curriculum team made decisions; Third, the factors of environment and teacher had greater impact on curriculum decision-making; Forth, the curriculum team did not practice the ideal of empowerment fully; Fifth, the role and function of curriculum team remained for further clarification and confirmation. Suggestions provided by the researcher are as follows: First, rethinking the role and function of curriculum team, encouraging group’s cooperative habit, promoting the teacher’s culture for curriculum change, and enhancing the curriculum leadership of the team leader; Second, in turns of raising the autonomy of curriculum team, teachers may expand their individual pedagogical autonomy to collective curricular autonomy, and the school administration must offer sufficient supports to teachers; Third, in turns of increasing teacher’s curricular consciousness, teachers should take more active role, and they also need to have further thought and understanding of the essence of “curriculum”; Forth, for further studies, it is important to examine how the informal interactions of teachers influence the curriculum decision-making, and how teachers carry out the decision made by the curriculum team.