Contemporary readings in curriculum / Barbara Slater Stern, Marcella L. Kysilka, editors.
Contemporary Readings in Curriculum provides beginning teachers and educational leaders with a series of articles that can help them build their curriculum knowledge base. [This book] provides a historical context of the curriculum field, giving educators a solid foundation for curriculum knowledge;...
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[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Why education is so difficult and contentious / Kieran Egan
- Questionable assumptions about schooling / Elliot W. Eisner
- What is really important in the curriculum world? / Judith Dziuban and Marcella Kysilka
- Curriculum alignment revisited / Allan A. Glatthorn
- Knowledge alive / David Perkins
- The curriculum-curriculum : experiences in teaching curriculum / William H. Schubert
- Human agency and the curriculum / Hanan A. Alexander
- Adolescent needs, curriculum, and the eight-year study / Robert V. Bullough, Jr. and Craig Kridel
- Toward a renaissance in curriculum theory and development in the USA / William G. Wraga and Peter S. Hlebowitsh
- The information age : a blessing or a curse? / Neil Postman
- The memories of an all-black northern urban school : good memories of leadership, teachers, and the curriculum / Adah Ward Randolph
- Integrating high school and the community college : previous efforts and current possibilities / Carrie B. Kisker
- Building a plane while flying it : early lessons from developing charter schools / Noelle C. Griffin and Priscilla Wohlstetter
- Learning to read in kindergarten : has curriculum development bypassed the controversies? / Bruce Joyce, Marilyn Hrycauk, and Emily Calhoun
- Literacy education and reading programs in the secondary school : status, problems, and solutions / Freya M.J. Zipperer [and others]
- A deeper sense of literacy : curriculum-driven approaches to media literacy in the K-12 classroom / Cynthia L. Scheibe
- War, critical thinking, and self-understanding / Nel Noddings
- The math wars / Alan H. Schoenfeld
- Chemistry, the central science? : the history of the high school science sequence / Keith Sheppard and Dennis M. Robbins
- School days (Hail, hail rock 'n' roll!) / Rick Mitchell
- Extracurricular activities and adolescent development / Jacquelynne S. Eccles [and others]
- After-school programs are making a difference / Marianne Russell Kugler
- The effect of interscholastic sports participation on academic achievement of middle level school students / Larry J. Stephens and Laura A. Schaben
- Hearts and minds : military recruitment and the high school battlefield / William Ayers
- Curriculum matters / W. James Popham
- Cashing in on the classroom / Alex Molnar
- Politics of character education / Robert W. Howard, Marvin W. Berkowitz, and Esther F. Schaeffer
- No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow / Murry R. Nelson
- A contemporary controversy in American education : including intelligent design in the science curriculum / Vicki D. Johnson
- The Plains City story / Marcela van Olphen [and others]
- How global is the curriculum? / Andrew F. Smith
- Designing appropriate curriculum for special education students in urban schools / Timothy E. Morse
- Urban public high school teachers' beliefs about science learner characteristics : implications for curriculum / Glenda M. Prime and Rommel J. Miranda
- Tried and true : the rural school curriculum in the age of accountability / Aimee Howley
- Curriculum, instruction, and assessment : amiable allies or phony friends? / W. James Popham
- It's the curriculum, stupid! : there's something wrong with it / Dave F. Brown
- Teaching for social justice, diversity, and citizenship in a global world / James A. Banks
- Beyond zero tolerance : restoring justice in secondary schools / Jeanne B. Stinchcomb, Gordon Bazemore, and Nancy Riestenberg
- It's time to start the slow school movement / Maurice Holt
- The lure of learning in teaching / Daniel P. Liston.