Transportation Cycling Courses:
Their purposes, their problems

This paper examines transportation cycling courses using a systematic examination of ‘curriculum as a culture’ – not only as course content – to encourage dialogue, analysis and assessment of intent, beliefs and practices. This paper looks at the goals, vision and history of transportation cycling courses, as well as the beliefs and practices regarding: learners and teachers, content and context, planning and evaluation, and ends with a discussion of the dilemmas of practice and a critique of the purposes and problems of transportation bicycling skills courses. A summary of this papers findings was presented at the BC ITE (Joint Interior and Costal yearly convention) in Kamloops BC October 29th, 2004. 

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