Curriculum: Alternative Approaches, Ongoing Issues (2nd Edition) - Hardcover

Marsh, Colin J.; Willis, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137570716 ISBN 13: 9780137570713

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher

An exciting new curriculum planning volume that relates the best of recent thinking and research in the field to the three very different levels of curriculum that come together in every classroom: The curriculum planned for the classroom, the curriculum enacted in the classroom, and the curriculum experienced in the classroom. The authors assume gaps will-- and should!--appear among these curricula because there is no single answer to the question of what a curriculum should be. Therefore, they concentrate on the broad process of curriculum planning, including alternative theoretical concerns and practical approaches, while at the same time, acknowledging and exploring the underlying tensions, problems, ambiguities, and uncertainties involved from the point-of-view of those who are entrusted with the decision-making.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0137570716
• ISBN 13: 9780137570713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 363