Curriculum Development: A Guide to Practice, Loose-Leaf Version

ISBN 10: 0133849473 ISBN 13: 9780133849479

Synopsis

The new edition of this highly respected book identifies 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. 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.

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. NEW to this Ninth Edition are:

• New references and additional readings providing the latest information in this dynamic field.
• Practice problems at the end of each chapter.
• 65 multiple-choice test questions with correct answers and reference pages for the electronic version of the text.
• An increased emphasis on multicultural themes is found throughout the text--in the case studies, quotations, and additional readings in all chapters.
• Comparison of curriculum development efforts in the United States with 15 other nations struggling to adapt to the new global age.
• 25 original strategies in the final chapter providing readers with a selection to choose from in planning curriculum improvement in their nation, state, district, or school.
• Increased coverage of curriculum assessment efforts in American schools.

About the Author

Jon Wiles is a highly experienced educator who has provided curriculum leadership to schools and educational agencies for over thirty years. His specialty is the creation and implementation of curriculum plans. Wiles s work as an educational consultant has taken him to hundreds of agencies in more than forty states and a dozen foreign nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Wiles is the author or coauthor of twelve widely used books addressing curriculum and educational leadership. His text, Curriculum Development: A Guide to Practice (Seventh Edition), has been used for nearly thirty years in colleges and universities throughout the world to train curriculum leaders. Other areas of publication by Wiles include teacher training, administration, school supervision, theory of change, politics of education, middle grades education, and technology.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1731
• ISBN 10: 0133849473
• ISBN 13: 9780133849479
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Language: English