Key Concepts for Understanding the Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9780750706841 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 336 str.

Colin J. Marsh; J. Marsh Colin

Opis

Each chapter of this book is devoted to a separate concept, which is analyzed in terms of its major features. Follow-up questions at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge the reader to reflect further on the specific issues raised.

Spis treści

Curriculum frameworks; school audits, situational analysis and needs assessment; aims, goals and objectives; selection of method; profiles, records of achievement and portfolios; using textbooks; curriculum and integration; technology and a school subject; Tyler's planning model; Walker's deliberative approach to planning; centrally-based curriculum development; decentralized and school-based curriculum development;  curriculum implementation; assessment, grading and testing;  innovation and planned change; leadership and the school principal; self-managing schools; performance indidcators and effective schools; school evaluations/reviews; curriculum history; school subjects; curriculum theorizing and the reconceptualists; sociology of knowledge and the curriculum; feminist pedagogy; postmodernism and the curriculum.

O autorze

Colin J. Marsh