Description
Each chapter of this book is devoted to a separate concept, which is analyzed in terms of its major features. Follow-up questions at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge the reader to reflect further on the specific issues raised.
Table of Contents
Curriculum frameworks; school audits, situational analysis and needs assessment; aims, goals and objectives; selection of method; profiles, records of achievement and portfolios; using textbooks; curriculum and integration; technology and a school subject; Tyler's planning model; Walker's deliberative approach to planning; centrally-based curriculum development; decentralized and school-based curriculum development; curriculum implementation; assessment, grading and testing; innovation and planned change; leadership and the school principal; self-managing schools; performance indidcators and effective schools; school evaluations/reviews; curriculum history; school subjects; curriculum theorizing and the reconceptualists; sociology of knowledge and the curriculum; feminist pedagogy; postmodernism and the curriculum.
