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The Curriculum

Name: The Curriculum
Author: Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple
ISBN: 9780887068171

by Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple

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Such was the praise for the first edition of The Curriculum. Now Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple join together with other notable contributors in this new edition to examine a range of issues, ideas, and practices connected to the development, evaluation, and effects of curriculum ideas and practices.

With substantially new and revised material, the book includes both historical and contemporary efforts to redefine the public school curriculum. It analyzes both the explicit ideas that are conveyed through the curriculum as well as the social, political, aesthetic, ethical, and moral perspectives and values with which curriculum is connected. In outlining both theoretical and practical aspects of the curriculum, and the social values and purposes with which they are connected, the book raises a host of important questions and dilemmas about the nature and direction of educational policies and practices.

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Examines a range of ideas, issues, and practices connected to the development, evaluation, and effects of curriculum ideas and practices. Describes historical and contemporary efforts to redefine the public school curriculum, and analyzes both the explicit ideas that are conveyed through the curriculum as well as the social, political, aesthetic, ethical, and moral perspectives and values with which curriculum is connected. Outlines both theoretical issues and practical possibilities in the process of raising questions about the nature and direction of educational policies and practices. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Examines six major areas of theory and practice which exemplify the field of curriculum: historical dimensions of the field; planning and organizing the curricula for the public schools; the problem of selecting appropriate content for inclusion in the curriculum; the effect of the workplace of teaching on curriculum theory and development; technology and curriculum; and problems of evaluation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)