Curriculum

Résumé du livre

This book is directed to the student teacher or the experienced teacher engaged in study or reflection on curriculum. For the student teacher, it will introduce the notion of curriculum and illustrate its central importance in the knowledge and skills required of the profession. For the experienced teacher, it will offer the most up-to-date research and reflection on curriculum. This edition examines especially the significance of those international moves towards curriculum control which characterize the 1990s. The book examines and appraises the contribution made to current curriculum thinking by the most recent insights of educational psychology, sociology and philosophy. In particular, it assesses common approaches to classroom curriculum management in light of some of the most important educational philosophies of the day, especially those of the critical theorists. It then draws these perspectives together in evaluating current trends and directions in curriculum.