Curriculum
Foundations, Principles, and Issues
3rd Edition
Published on 12. May 1998
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-205-27702-5 (ISBN)
Description
The third edition of Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues provides both the student and the professor of curriculum with a comprehensive treatment of the field: curriculum foundations as well as the principles and procedures for conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum. As in previous editions, it provides solid coverage of the philosophical, historical, psychological, and social foundations of curriculum. Recent research and thinking in these areas is included, providing new information on, for example: thereconceptualists, learning styles and developmental psychology, American modal personality, charter schools and privitizations, and Goals 2000. It places curriculum within the dynamic social context, both present and emerging, and presents a balanced treatment of the various issues confronting the field.
Throughout the text, the reader is engaged in considering the tension between postmodern thinking and modern thinking and how they are impacting curriculum deliberation, development, and implementation. Coverage of the social foundations of curriculum develops the idea that curriculum cannot be divorced from its social context. Thediversity of the American society and what it means for school curricula is included in this discussion.
Updated to include the most current thinking in curriculum, the text engages the reader in its discussion of both technical and nontechnical models of curriculum development. Ornstein and Hunkins discuss these models, not to urge acceptance of a narrow view of curriculum thinking, but to allow students to comprehend the assumptions behind these models and to learn how they might utilize these models in a changing and emerging curriculum environment.
Throughout the text, the reader is engaged in considering the tension between postmodern thinking and modern thinking and how they are impacting curriculum deliberation, development, and implementation. Coverage of the social foundations of curriculum develops the idea that curriculum cannot be divorced from its social context. Thediversity of the American society and what it means for school curricula is included in this discussion.
Updated to include the most current thinking in curriculum, the text engages the reader in its discussion of both technical and nontechnical models of curriculum development. Ornstein and Hunkins discuss these models, not to urge acceptance of a narrow view of curriculum thinking, but to allow students to comprehend the assumptions behind these models and to learn how they might utilize these models in a changing and emerging curriculum environment.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 184 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
805 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-27702-5 (9780205277025)
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01/2004
4th Edition
Pearson
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Previous edition
Allan C. Ornstein | Francis P. Hunkins
Curriculum
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01/1993
2nd Edition
Allyn & Bacon
€88.03
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Content
All chapters close with "Conclusion."
1.The Field of Curriculum.
Curriculum Approaches.
Definition of Curriculum.
Foundations of Curriculum.
Domains of Curriculum.
Theory and Practice.
The Roles of the Curriculum Worker.
I.FOUNDATIONS OF CURRICULUM.
2.Philosophical Foundations of Curriculum.
Philosophy and Curriculum.
Major Philosophies.
Educational Philosophies.
3.Historical Foundations of Curriculum.
The Colonial Period: 1642-1776.
The National Period: 1776-1850.
Nineteenth-Century European Educators.
The Rise of Universal Education: 1820-1920.
The Transitional Period: 1893-1918.
Curriculum as a Field Is Born: 1918-1949.
Current Focus.
4.Psychological Foundations of Curriculum.
Behaviorism.
Developmental Psychology.
Phenomenology and Humanistic Psychology.
5.Social Foundations of Curriculum.
Sociology, Education, and Schooling.
A Dynamic Changing Society.
Processing Social-Education Priorities.
National Task Force Reports on Education.
Planning for Educational Change.
6.Theoretical Ways of Thinking about Curriculum.
Theoretical Perspectives.
The Classic Bases of Curriculum Theorizing.
The Functions of Theory.
Theory Building.
Curriculum Theory.
Metaphors and Theoretical Camps.
Directions for the Future.
II. PRINCIPLES OF CURRICULUM.
7.Curriculum Development.
Technical-Scientific Approach.
Nontechnical-Nonscientific Approach.
Components to Consider in Developing a Curriculum.
Participants in Developing the Curriculum.
8.Curriculum Design.
Components of Design.
Design Dimension Considerations.
Representative Curriculum Designs.
9.Aims, Goals, and Objectives.
Aims of Education.
Goals of Education.
Objectives of Education.
Taxonomic Levels.
Approaches to Educational Objectives.
Challenges.
10.Curriculum Implementation.
The Nature of Implementation.
Implementation as a Change Process.
Curriculum Implementation Models.
Roles of the Key Players.
11.Curriculum Evaluation.
The Nature and Purpose of Evaluation.
Approaches to Evaluation.
Scientific-Positivistic Evaluation Models.
Humanistic and Naturalistic Evaluation Models.
Practices and Issues of Evaluation.
Roles Played in Evaluation.
III.ISSUES OF CURRICULUM.
12.Curriculum Issues and Trends.
National Curriculum.
Censored Curriculum.
Textbook Curriculum.
Compensatory Curriculum.
Multicultural Education.
School Reform.
Moral Education.
Technology and Curriculum.
Increasing Politicalization of the Curriculum.
13.Future Directions for Curriculum.
Future and Futurism.
Future Directions.
Future Intelligence.
Future Curricula.
Curriculum Considerations and Choice.
The Challenge of Dealing with the Future.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
1.The Field of Curriculum.
Curriculum Approaches.
Definition of Curriculum.
Foundations of Curriculum.
Domains of Curriculum.
Theory and Practice.
The Roles of the Curriculum Worker.
I.FOUNDATIONS OF CURRICULUM.
2.Philosophical Foundations of Curriculum.
Philosophy and Curriculum.
Major Philosophies.
Educational Philosophies.
3.Historical Foundations of Curriculum.
The Colonial Period: 1642-1776.
The National Period: 1776-1850.
Nineteenth-Century European Educators.
The Rise of Universal Education: 1820-1920.
The Transitional Period: 1893-1918.
Curriculum as a Field Is Born: 1918-1949.
Current Focus.
4.Psychological Foundations of Curriculum.
Behaviorism.
Developmental Psychology.
Phenomenology and Humanistic Psychology.
5.Social Foundations of Curriculum.
Sociology, Education, and Schooling.
A Dynamic Changing Society.
Processing Social-Education Priorities.
National Task Force Reports on Education.
Planning for Educational Change.
6.Theoretical Ways of Thinking about Curriculum.
Theoretical Perspectives.
The Classic Bases of Curriculum Theorizing.
The Functions of Theory.
Theory Building.
Curriculum Theory.
Metaphors and Theoretical Camps.
Directions for the Future.
II. PRINCIPLES OF CURRICULUM.
7.Curriculum Development.
Technical-Scientific Approach.
Nontechnical-Nonscientific Approach.
Components to Consider in Developing a Curriculum.
Participants in Developing the Curriculum.
8.Curriculum Design.
Components of Design.
Design Dimension Considerations.
Representative Curriculum Designs.
9.Aims, Goals, and Objectives.
Aims of Education.
Goals of Education.
Objectives of Education.
Taxonomic Levels.
Approaches to Educational Objectives.
Challenges.
10.Curriculum Implementation.
The Nature of Implementation.
Implementation as a Change Process.
Curriculum Implementation Models.
Roles of the Key Players.
11.Curriculum Evaluation.
The Nature and Purpose of Evaluation.
Approaches to Evaluation.
Scientific-Positivistic Evaluation Models.
Humanistic and Naturalistic Evaluation Models.
Practices and Issues of Evaluation.
Roles Played in Evaluation.
III.ISSUES OF CURRICULUM.
12.Curriculum Issues and Trends.
National Curriculum.
Censored Curriculum.
Textbook Curriculum.
Compensatory Curriculum.
Multicultural Education.
School Reform.
Moral Education.
Technology and Curriculum.
Increasing Politicalization of the Curriculum.
13.Future Directions for Curriculum.
Future and Futurism.
Future Directions.
Future Intelligence.
Future Curricula.
Curriculum Considerations and Choice.
The Challenge of Dealing with the Future.
Name Index.
Subject Index.