Curriculum Development: A Guide to Practice with Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (Allyn & Bacon Educational Leadership Series)

Wiles, Jon; Bondi, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0133833569 ISBN 13: 9780133833560

Publisher: Pearson, 2014

Synopsis

  Provides 25 individual strategies, currently used worldwide, for promoting educational development―strategies that schools, districts, states, and nations will employ in transforming their systems for the new global age  

 

Gives readers a worldview of the most important function in education―curriculum development, including the role of assessment in planning

 

KEY TOPICS: Curriculum in a new global age; philosophy and curriculum design; managing curriculum development; standards-based curriculum; curriculum development in the classroom; elementary school programs and issues; middle school programs and issues; secondary school programs and issues; global perspectives of curriculum; technology, curriculum, and the future;

 

MARKET: Teachers, administrators, and all educators involved curriculum development and planning

About this title

From the Back Cover

In this highly respected book, 25 individual strategies, currently used worldwide, provide cutting edge information and time-tested procedures for promoting educational development in today’s global age. While maintaining its established, well-known focus on historical and philosophical aspects of curriculum development, this edition also includes updated chapters on technology, the Common core movement, and the curriculum activities of the world’s leading nations, along with practical applications of these historic and novel principles of curriculum work.

 

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0133833569
• ISBN 13: 9780133833560
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416