Key concepts for understanding curriculum

by Marsh, Colin J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Key concepts for understanding curriculum / Colin J. Marsh.

Summary

"Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Written in Colin J. Marsh's clear and accessible style, the book details the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum." "Now updated with new chapters on curriculum models, school-based curriculum development, learning studies, ICT developments in assessment, the new edition includes extra detail on standards and essential learning factors that have recently been introduced in a number of countries, including the UK, USA and Australia." "This up-to-date edition of a definitive text will be essential reading for anyone involved in curriculum planning or development. It will be especially useful to students training to be teachers, and practising teachers following professional development programmes." --Book Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.
Edition:Fourth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 349 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415465779, 041546577X, 9780415465786, 0415465788
oclc:ocn231680064
LC Classification:LB1570
Dewey Decimal:375/.001

I. Introduction: What is curriculum? -- Introducing key concepts -- II. Curriculum planning and development: Using curriculum models as a planning tool -- Curriculum frameworks -- Objectives, learning outcomes and standards -- Selecting and organizing teaching and learning modes -- Assessment, grading and reporting -- Curriculum implementation -- III. Curriculum management: Innovation and planned change -- Leadership and the school principal -- School-based curriculum development: idealized or actual? -- School evaluations/reviews -- Curriculum reform -- IV. Teaching perspectives: Learning environments -- Teacher appraisal -- V. Collaborative involvement in curriculum: Decision-makers, stakeholders and influences -- Teachrs as researchers: action research and lesson study -- Parent-teacher participation -- VI. Curriculum ideology: Curriculum theorizing -- Gender, sexuality and the curriculum -- Postmodernism and the curriculum.

Subjects

81.62 curriculum curricula CURRICULUM Curriculum planning Curriculumforschung Education -- Curricula Educational Measurement Educational tests and measurements Leerplannen Programmes d'études Programmes d'études -- Philosophie Tests et mesures en éducation