Curriculum: Alternative Approaches, Ongoing Issues

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.