Key concepts for understanding curriculum

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Key concepts for understanding curriculum

Colin J. Marsh

Falmer, 1992

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The Falmer Press teachers' library : 5

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780750700085

Description

About thirty concepts of the curriculum are provided for the curriculum developer, which aim to highlight the major features, controversies, strengths and weaknesses of each curriculum concept. Emphasis is laid upon the input that students, parents and teachers can offer to the curriculum. Each concept is illuminated by a unique series of references and readings.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Student perspectives: learning environments
  • hidden curriculum
  • curriculum and gender
  • students' roles in curriculum decision-making
  • examinations. Part 2 Teacher perspectives: teacher empowerment
  • textbooks
  • leadership and the school principal
  • teacher appraisal. Part 3 Curriculum planning and development: curriculum frameworks
  • situational analysis/needs assessment
  • aims, goals and objectives
  • selection of method
  • assessment, grading and testing
  • Tyler's model of planning
  • Walker's deliberative approach to planning
  • teachers as researchers/action research
  • centrally-based curriculum development
  • school-based curriculum development. Part 4 Curriculum management: innovation and planned change
  • managing the curriculum - the collaborative school management model
  • effective schools and school improvement
  • school councils and governing bodies
  • school evaluations/reviews
  • curriculum implementation. Part 5 Curriculum ideology: curriculum history
  • school subjects
  • curriculum theorizing and the reconceptualists
  • sociology of knowledge approach to curriculum
  • curriculum reform.
Volume

:pbk. ISBN 9780750700092

Description

About thirty concepts of the curriculum are provided for the curriculum developer, which aim to highlight the major features, controversies, strengths and weaknesses of each curriculum concept. Emphasis is laid upon the input that students, parents and teachers can offer to the curriculum. Each concept is illuminated by a unique series of references and readings.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA21199092
  • ISBN
    • 0750700084
    • 0750700092
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York ; Philadelphia
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 221 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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