Title:
Curriculum improvement : decision making and process
Personal Author:
Edition:
7th ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 1989
ISBN:
9780205118519
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Summary
Summary
The Ninth Edition of "Curriculum Improvement" is comprehensive, unique, practical, and thought-provoking. Despite the problems it cites, the book offers a message of hope-- that schools can help to solve society's problems by impressing upon children and youth that they can achieve and succeed if they act in doing what they know to be right and productive.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Prologue: "If Ever We Needed" |
| I Decision Making in Curriculum Improvement |
| istorical and Philosophical Foundations of Curriculum Decision Making |
| The Meaning of Curriculum |
| The Underpinnings: Curriculum Change in Early America |
| A Digest of Trends in the Evolution of the Curriculum |
| Activity 1-1 Identifying Curriculum Concerns in Your Own Environment |
| Activity 1-2 Recognizing Well-Known People and Movements in the Curriculum Field |
| Activity 1-3 Narrating the Curriculum History of Your Own School SystemThe Curriculum - Lately and Presently |
| Two Philosophical Views of What the Curriculum Should Be |
| Schools of Philosophical Thought Affecting the Curriculum |
| Activity 1-4 Describing the Educational Philosophy of Your Own School |
| Activity 1-5 Defining and Refining Your Own Curriculum Philosophy |
| Educational Philosophy in a Context of Other Curriculum Foundations |
| Summary |
| Endnotes |
| Selected Bibliography |
| 2 Psychological Bases for Curriculum Decisions |
| Learners - Their Growth and Development |
| Situation 2-1 Judging What Use to Make of Certain Characteristics and Needs |
| Situation 2-2 Homework for an Eighth-Grade Class |
| Activity 2-1 Diagnosing the Learning Potential of an Individual LearnerUnderstandings of the Learning Process |
| Situation 2-3 Putting Selected Learning Principles to Work |
| Situation 2-4 The Case of Mary Williams |
| Situation 2-5 Identifying Basic Considerations Affecting Learning Style |
| Activity 2-2 Soliciting Pupil's Comments about Learning |
| Activity 2-3 Learning What It Means to LearnSome Uses of Psychology in Making Decisions Cooperatively about the Curriculum |
| Summary |
| Endnotes |
| Selected Bibliography |
| 3 Social and Cultural Forces Affecting Curriculum Decisions |
| Influences from Society and the Culture at Large |
| Situation 3-1 Finding Traditions to Challenge |
| Situation 3-2 Assessing the Effects of Specific Social Changes |
| Situation 3-3 What to Do about the Plight of Victimized Teachers |
| Activity 3-1 How Much Federal and State ControlInfluences within the Immediate Community |
| Activity 3-2 A Limited Study of One Community |
| Activity 3-3 A More Comprehensive Study of the Same Community |
| Situation 3-4 When Subcultures and Social Classes Come to SchoolCulture-Based Curriculum Ideas: Two Examples |
| Activity 3-4 A Study of Present and Future Career Opportunities |
| Activity 3-5 Investigating the Pervasiveness of High Technology |
| Strategies for Using Social and Cultural Influences |
| Activity 3-6 The Site at which Political Power Should Be Applied |
| Activity 3-7 Which Will You Have? |
| Summary |
| Endnotes |
| Selected Bibliography |
| 4 Subject Matter: Its Role in Decision Making |
| An Overview of Subject Matter Selection and Placement |
| Activity 4-1 Finding Reasons for Changes in Subject Matter Placement |
| Selecting Subject Matter as Learning Content |
| Activity 4-2 Planning Improved Selection of Subject Matters |
| Situation 4-1 Resolving Problems in Subject Matter Selection and Assignment Making |
| A Closer Look at Subject Matter |
| Activity 4-3 Discovering What's Inside a Discipline |
| Activity 4-4 Working with the Discovery Process |
| Organizing and Reorganizing Subject Matter for Teaching and Learning |
| Special Problems in Organizing and Presenting Subject Matter |
| Activity 4-5 Becoming Acquainted with Curriculum Literature Relating to Special Problem in Organizing and Presenting Subject Matter |
| Situation 4-2 Responding to the State's Criticisms of the Yalta Pass Curriculum |
| The Status of Subject Matter Selection and Presentation |
| Summary |
| Endnotes |
| Selected Bibliography |
| 5 Making Decisions About the Design of the Curriculum |
| The Nature of Design and Designing |
| Sources of Ideas that Undergird Curriculum Designs |
| Activity 5-1 Thinking about Sources of Educational Philosophy |
| Situation 5-1 Using Curriculum Foundations in Planning Improvement |
| Situation 5-2 Making Further Use of Curriculum Foundations and ViewpointsA Classic Model for Creating Curriculum Designs |
| Strategies Often Used in Creating Curriculum Designs |
| Activity 5-2 |
