Understanding Curriculum
Understanding Curriculum
The Australian Context
2nd Edition
January 1900
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Understanding Curriculum is a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice. Substantially revised, the second edition includes more detailed consideration of the ideological underpinnings of curriculum development, features new chapters on assessment and reporting, and updated vignettes and extracts. These features, combined with all the elements of the previous edition, encourages readers to reflect on how curriculum theory can inform and enhance classroom practice.
- Explores major philosophies of curriculum development, including conservative, neoliberal and progressive approaches
- Examines the relationships between curriculum and pedagogy, equity, technology, gender, social justice and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in depth
- Includes annotated weblinks and lecturer resources
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January 1900Adobe eBook Reader
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Table of Contents
- 1. The landscape of curriculum theory
- 2. Introducing conservative ideological approaches to curriculum
- 3. Social efficiency ideology
- 4. Neoliberal ideology in curriculum
- 5. Progressive approaches to curriculum
- 6. Social reconstruction ideology
- 7. Pedagogy
- 8. Equity and (critical) diversity
- 9. Exploring implications of the construction of the girl/boy binary in curriculum Claire Charles
- 10. Indigenous issues and a curriculum for social justice
- 11. How educational technology influences curriculum work
- 12. Assessing what we value
- 13. Designing assessment
- 14. Unit planning and design
- 15. Reflecting on how you can bring education to the curriculum.
