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Originally published in 1983. Written by an experienced headteacher and curriculum consultant, this book was written to help schools with the task of planning their whole curriculum - teachers, governors, administrators and students. It provides information on national educational policies of the time, approaches to curriculum planning, and the structures of actual schools. The Department of Education and Science had just issued Circular 6 of 1981, which called upon education authorities, governing bodies, heads and the staffs of schools ‘to secure a planned and coherent curriculum within the schools’. The book describes the background to this development; spells out the tasks involved; provides a series of exercises for planning and discussion; and offers ideas, questions and methods. It recognises the diversity of school circumstances, and talks about the vital transition from theory to practice.
Like the three critically acclaimed prior editions, the fourth edition of this information-packed volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the nature of the curriculum development process and the nature of twenty-first-century education reform. In a style notable for its lack of jargon and digressive pedagogy, the author simplifies the sound foundations and principles of curriculum development as they apply to the implementation of major education reform. This revised and expanded edition features cutting-edge research and the latest predictions of future trends. The books three integrated themesmulticultural education, constructivism, and education reformare more relevant than ever in the...
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Parkay (Washington State U.) and other US educators critically view the interrelationship between curriculum and instruction at all levels, and historical, present, and future perspectives on curriculum planning. Of the 71 articles in this edition, 37 are new. They provide increased coverage of such topics as media literacy, multicultural education, multiples intelligences, the No Child Left Behind Act, and commercialism in the schools. Each chapter contains a teacher-authored putting theory-into-practice feature. Practitioner- authored case studies are included in the section on providing leadership for curriculum planning and implementation. Previous editions appeared between 1974 and 2000. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).