Education

For Curriculum and Curriculum Planning courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.

With its focus on the application of theory to actual classroom practice, this text's treatment of the full spectrum of curriculum design and practice has set the standard for completeness for nearly two decades. Part I explores the historical roots of current curriculum issues and practices, emphasizing the assessment of leading efforts at reform. Part II offers a critique of changing concepts of curriculum, conflicting curriculum and educational rationales, and influences for and against change. In Part III, major crosscurrents in reform and reconstruction are discussed, including social crises, the “knowledge explosion”, curriculum articulation, and emerging designs. Part IV focuses on curriculum research and improvement, paying particular attention to the roles of teachers, supervisors, administrators, and curriculum specialists in the process.

• An applications focus throughout the text ties theoretical material to actual practice, and to implications for school improvement. Diagrams and tables illustrate theoretical concepts; and, problems for study extend student thinking beyond academic discussion into the real world of classrooms.

• Presentation and evaluation of alternative curriculum designs clearly reveal the pivotal connection between curriculum structure and function.

• A broader-based focus now encompasses the needs of both undergraduate and graduate courses. This expanded focus is evident in an increased emphasis on curriculum design, its development, and its role in creating solutions to the practical problems faced today in such areas as teaching, school improvement, and educational. Concrete guidelines are provided for teachers, supervisors, administrators, and curriculum specialists striving for curriculum improvement based on a sound conceptual framework...along with illustrations of their part in the process.

• A conceptual model of curriculum reform is used as a “compass” for evaluating the viability of contemporary reform efforts. Major reform programs are compared and contrasted, using this model to illuminate the reasons behind their success or failure in the past, and shed light on future prospects for other proposals.

• Systematic treatment of the process of curriculum stresses ways to build upon the vast knowledge base present in the field. It offers students a background in national educational/curricular reform proposals, both past and present, to provide perspective on the field along with insights into possible new directions.

• The latest issues and concerns in curriculum are addressed, especially such issues as national testing, curriculum fragmentation, and the quest for a “core” curriculum in a multicultural society.

Primary sources - used throughout document historic turning points in the curriculum field offering readers a perspective and basis for evaluating the roots and significance of contemporary practices and reforms.

Full chapter devoted to curriculum research - and how it may be used or misused in impacting policy and practice for education reform.

Full chapter devoted to major proposals for Curriculum Reform and Nationalizing Influences - help readers learn how to apply the curriculum paradignm in evaluating the validity and impact of the reform proposals on the curriculum.

Full chapter devoted to the major conflicting curriculum theories or philosophies with a new section on contepmporary controversies - enable readers to ascertain each theory or philosphy's impact on professional policy and practice.

A holistic approach to curriculum design, structure, function, and evaluation is presetned helping readers understand how the structure of the curriculum determines its function, and how the five macro-curricular functions must operate in harmony.

Perspectives chapter-ending section provides readers with a sense of direction on which to connect past and present developments to prospects for the future.

PART I        Perspectives and Prospects

Chapter 1    In the Beginning: Heroes, Events, and Curriculum

Chapter 2    New Directions and Turning Points in the Curriculum

Chapter 3    Century of the Curriculum

Chapter 4    The Modern Curriculum: Its Evolution

Chapter 5    Changing Conceptions of Curriculum

Chapter 6    A Paradigm for the Curriculum Field: Compass for Curriculum Renewal

Chapter 7    Sources and Forces for Curriculum Renewal: Society and the World of Knowledge

Chapter 8    The Nature of the Learner as Curricular Source and Influence

Chapter 9    Curricular Sources and Influences: Conflicting Educational Theories

Chapter 10  The Search for a Core Curriculum: General Education in a Free Society

Chapter 11  Determining the Structure of the Curriculum: Design for Synthesis

Chapter 12  Proposals for Reform: Curricular Priorities and Polarities

Chapter 13  The Curriculum and the World of Work

Chapter 14  Interpreting Research for Curriculum Improvement

Chapter 15  Who Makes the Curriculum?

Chapter 16  School Renewal: Ways and Means

Epilogue

References

Curriculum Development (K-12) (Educational Administration & Leadership)

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