Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Curricula

"This book combines a number of excellent authors thinking about curriculum. It's a nice blend of known authors and newer writers in the field." -- Robert C. Morris, University of West Georgia

"The range of topics--reading, science, art--makes this a complete and comprehensive reader for both novices and experienced educational teachers and leaders." --Jeffrey S. Kaplan, University of Central Florida

Contemporary Readings in Curriculum provides beginning teachers and educational leaders with a series of articles that can...

This new collection provides a much-needed forum for mathematics educators to articulate a connected K-16 story of proof. This book both highlights the ideas that have recently emerged on proof research and defines an agenda for future study.

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative process model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.

This comprehensive and authoritative book:

• offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectives
• shows that a curriculum can be best planned and developed at school level by teachers adopting an action research role
• complements the spirit and reality of...

This text engages preservice and practicing teachers in considering some of the complex issues related to religion and teaching that all educators face in their interactions with students, parents, administrators, and fellow teachers. The questions are not just about what is legal and what is not, but how a teacher should act in the best interests of all students, both those who are religious and those who are not.

This book does not provide answers. Its goal is to cause readers to reflect deeply on issues related to their professional decisions and actions regarding religion and...

"I commend and celebrate the editors and authors for a remarkable book that engages the reader's imagination, heart, mind, spirit, and body. Out of creative and courageous commitments to challenging orthodoxies by living and writing research that is personal, political, and poetic, these scholars invite the kind of vigorous dialogue that will continue to promote creative possibilities for inquiry in the social sciences."

Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia, From the Foreword

Evocative and provocative, this book presents the points of view of (often junior)...

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Written in Marsh's clear and accessible style, the book details the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum, including

• curriculum planning and development
• curriculum management
• teaching perspectives
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