Fundamentals of Curriculum

Education & Teaching

Walker, Decker F.

Schools & Teaching

Harcourt College Pub.

Graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum have many textbooks to choose from. What is special about Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, Second Edition? Content and approach: Clear, focused, and tightly structured, this text provides essential information and resources education professionals need to effectively deal with the urgent and important curriculum problems they face in schools today. Part I ("Perspectives") looks at curriculum from five fundamental perspectives: curriculum work, traditions of curriculum practice, curriculum theories, curriculum reforms, and curriculum studies. Part II ("Practice") applies these perspectives to important curriculum challenges that arise when people try to improve curriculums in schools and classrooms. Chapter features: Each chapter opens with a thought-provoking quotation and a set of guiding questions, and ends with "Questions and Projects" and "Further Studies" essays that recommend readings, Web resources, and other ways to study more about the topic. Distinctive qualities: Comprehensive. Readers are acquainted with the major schools of thought, value systems, lines of activity, and forms of inquiry in the field. Rigorous. The most rigorous research and scholarship on curriculum questions is cited and described; research and scholarship are used to ground discussions of curriculum questions; readers are introduced to the considerations involved in doing rigorous studies of curriculum questions. Practical. First, the focus is on curriculum practice. Theory, research, and other important facets of curriculum studies are presented as vitally important to practice, but the primary subject is what teachers and others do that students experience. Second, the text is practical in a more philosophical sense, taking the fundamental questions of curriculum studies to be practical questions and the primary task of curriculum inquiry to be informing decisions about what to do. Professional. Curriculum matters are approached professionally both in the sense that the text is designed to prepare readers for professional roles doing curriculum work, and also in the moral and ethical sense that attention is paid throughout the book to the responsibility of curriculum professionals in the public schools to serve the public interest. New in the Second Edition: The essential message and basic structure of the first edition is preserved, but the text has been significantly reworked to be: *leaner and simpler--the number of chapters is reduced from 13 to nine and the number of pages reduced almost as much; *more tightly focused on the ideas, arguments, and examples that are essential learning for anyone entering the study of curriculum--chapters less central to the primary concerns of curriculum professionals and scholars have been cut; *throughly updated and strengthened as an introduction to research and scholarship in curriculum studies--many new excellent studies have been integrated, and examples, references, and recommended readings included; and *more direct--the practical, professional message that is the book's main message is more clearly articulated.

Routledge

The revised and expanded second edition of "Curriculum and Aims" provides a broad perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programmes. After examining aims that have been proposed by classical educational thinkers and reviewing the dominant educational debate of this century between traditionalists and progressives, authors Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis deal with fundamental issues of curriculum theory and instructional practice, raising such questions as: who has the authority to make curriculum decisions?; when is a curriculum change a change for the better?; should curriculum be thought of as a set of subjects to be learned or as a set of experiences for people to have?; which perspective - student-, society- or subject-centred - best guides the design of general education in a democratic society?; what do contemporary scholars who have studied and critiqued curriculum of the past and present have to offer practicing teachers?; if we as a pluralistic society "aim" our educational programmes, how can we do so democratically, fairly, and justly?; what questions should be considered during the process of curriculum deliberation? As in the other volumes in the "Thinking About Education Series", a final "Cases and disputes" chapter provides realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thought and discussion.

Curriculum and aims (Thinking about education series)

Teachers College, Columbia University

Paperback: 130 pagesPublisher: Teachers College Press; 3 Sub edition (August 1997)Language: English

Curriculum and Aims (Thinking About Education Series)

Soltis, Jonas F.

Teachers College Pr

infoDescriptionOffers a perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programs. This book examines aims that have been proposed by classical educational thinkers and reviews the dominant educational debate of the 20th century between traditionalists and progressives.Key FeaturesAuthor(s)Decker F. Walker, Frances Schoonmaker, Jonas F. SoltisPublisherTeachers' College PressDate of Publication15/09/2009

Curriculum And Aims (Thinking About Education Series)

The revised Fifth Edition of Curriculum and Aims provides a broad perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programs. After examining aims that have been proposed by classical educational thinkers and reviewing the dominant educational debate of the 20th century between traditionalists and progressives, authors Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis deal with fundamental contemporary issues of curriculum theory and instructional practice. As in the other volumes in the Thinking About Education Series, this new edition provides realistic case studies that inspire pre-service teachers to grapple with the issues of curriculum and aims in the context of classroom situations. The Fifth Edition features a new case on Education and Equity: Closing the Achievement Gap and includes updated references to important recent ideas in a new section at the end of each chapter called For Further Inquiry. Curriculum and Aims is one of the five books in the highly regarded Teachers College Press THINKING ABOUT EDUCATION SERIES, now in its Fifth Edition. All of the books in this series are designed to help pre- and in-service teachers bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Teachers' College Press

Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism

Graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum have many textbooks to choose from. What is special about Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, Second Edition?   Content and approach: Clear, focused, and tightly structured, this text provides essential information and resources education professionals need to effectively deal with the urgent and important curriculum problems they face in schools today. Part I ("Perspectives") looks at curriculum from five fundamental perspectives: curriculum work, traditions of curriculum practice, curriculum theories, curriculum reforms, and curriculum studies. Part II ("Practice") applies these perspectives to important curriculum challenges that arise when people try to improve curriculums in schools and classrooms.   Chapter features: Each chapter opens with a thought-provoking quotation and a set of guiding questions, and ends with "Questions and Projects" and "Further Studies" essays that recommend readings, Web resources, and other ways to study more about the topic.   Distinctive qualities:  Comprehensive. Readers are acquainted with the major schools of thought, value systems, lines of activity, and forms of inquiry in the field.  Rigorous. The most rigorous research and scholarship on curriculum questions is cited and described; research and scholarship are used to ground discussions of curriculum questions; readers are introduced to the considerations involved in doing rigorous studies of curriculum questions.  Practical. First, the focus is on curriculum practice. Theory, research, and other important facets of curriculum studies are presented as vitally important to practice, but the primary subject is what teachers and others do that students experience. Second, the text is practical in a more philosophical sense, taking the fundamental questions of curriculum studies to be practical questions and the primary task of curriculum inquiry to be informing decisions about what to do.  Professional. Curriculum matters are approached professionally both in the sense that the text is designed to prepare readers for professional roles doing curriculum work, and also in the moral and ethical sense that attention is paid throughout the book to the responsibility of curriculum professionals in the public schools to serve the public interest.    New in the Second Edition: The essential message and basic structure of the first edition is preserved, but the text has been significantly reworked to be:  *leaner and simpler--the number of chapters is reduced from 13 to nine and the number of pages reduced almost as much;  *more tightly focused on the ideas, arguments, and examples that are essential learning for anyone entering the study of curriculum--chapters less central to the primary concerns of curriculum professionals and scholars have been cut;  *throughly updated and strengthened as an introduction to research and scholarship in curriculum studies--many new excellent studies have been integrated, and examples, references, and recommended readings included; and  *more direct--the practical, professional message that is the book's main message is more clearly articulated.

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Fundamentals of Curriculum

Fundamentals of Curriculum

Curriculum and aims (Thinking about education series)

Curriculum and Aims (Thinking About Education Series)

Curriculum And Aims (Thinking About Education Series)

Curriculum and Aims (Thinking About Education Series)

Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism

Fundamentals of Curriculum