This concise book focuses on the processes of curriculum development and making practical curriculum decisions. This second edition book examines the external factors influencing curriculum development, such as politics, society, and personal attitudes, while presenting readers with a variety of approaches to curriculum development. With its consistent chapter organization, it focuses reader attention on key content elements.It also expands two important issues in curriculum development by creating two new chapters: The Character of Curriculum  and Approaches in Curriculum. It includes examples from several major Western countries, and provides material on feminist pedagogy and postmodernism.

Curriculum: Alternative Approaches, Ongoing Issues

Willis, George

Marsh, Colin

Education & Teaching

Merril Pr

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum (Teachers' Library)

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 <ul>
<li>curriculum planning and development</li> <li>curriculum management</li> <li>teaching perspectives</li> <li>collaborative involvement in curriculum</li> <li>curriculum ideology.</li> </ul>
Now updated with new chapters on curriculum models, school-based curriculum development, learning studies, ICT developments in assessment, the new edition includes extra detail on standards and essential learning factors that have recently been introduced in a number of countries, including the UK, USA and Australia. This up-to-date edition of a definitive text will be essential reading for anyone involved in curriculum planning or development. It will be especially useful to students training to be teachers, and practising teachers following professional development programmes.

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

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.

Key Concepts for Understanding the Curriculum (Falmer Press Teachers' Library, 11)

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Curriculum: Alternative Approaches, Ongoing Issues

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum (Teachers' Library)

Key Concepts for Understanding the Curriculum (Falmer Press Teachers' Library, 11)