Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum (Vol 4 of the Successful Schools Series) - Softcover

English, Fenwick W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803960190 ISBN 13: 9780803960190

Publisher: Corwin, 1992

Synopsis

This comprehensive book explores the day-to-day problems school teachers and administrators encounter in the area of curriculum, instruction and evaluation.

Developing curriculum is a political as well as an educational activity and practitioners should be aware of `hidden′ political realities and value systems at work in their schools. In this book, the author proposes that there are three forms of curricula: formal, informal and hidden, with manifestations of these forms in the written, taught and tested curricula. English shows how these elements are brought together in developing curriculum.

About this title

About the Author

Fenwick W. English (Ph.D.) is the R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 2001. As a scholar/practitioner he has held positions as a school principal and superintendent of schools in California and New York and as a department chair, dean, and vice-chancellor of academic affairs at universities in Ohio and Indiana. He is the former President of the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA) and of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). His research has been reported in national and international academic forums. He edited the 2006 SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, the 2009 SAGE Library of Educational Thought and Practice: Educational Leadership and Administration; and the 2011 SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership (2nd Ed.). In 2013, he received the Living Legend Award from NCPEA for his lifetime contribution to the field of educational leadership.

Review

"First published in 1992 and now released as the millennium edition, this book is ′for school administrators and teachers who want fast, accurate, and easy-to-use answers′ to curriculum questions. It would also be an excellent text for teacher education students just beginning to study curriculum."

(B. L. Nourie, Illinois State University CHOICE, 2000)

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803960190
• ISBN 13: 9780803960190
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128