Curriculum Essentials: A Resource for Educators - Softcover

Wiles, Jon W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205418244 ISBN 13: 9780205418244

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

A brief and invitingly priced text, Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help pre-service teachers learn everything they need to know about (K-12) curriculum development.

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From the Back Cover

Curriculum Essentials, Second Edition, serves as an excellent resource and guide to help preservice MJY1teachers learn everything they need to know about KMJY2-12 curriculum development.

This well-organized, concise text covers the most important, basic ideas for understanding the area of curriculum. The text contains compilations of important dates and events, definitions of curriculum, names to know in curriculum study, and an introduction to the philosophies and theories influencing curriculum development. With all this material, Curriculum Essentials describes in detail the development process beginning with concept development and ending in classroom lesson plans. Features

• Contains critical collections of essential knowledge such as names, dates, books, research, documents, and theories.
• Includes an annotated bibliography of fifty major books on curriculum development.
• Offers more than 80 illustrations and figures to delineate the entire development process, including models, paradigms, and planning instruments.
• Demonstrates application in current school programs such as bilingual and early childhood education.

Jon Wiles is Professor of Education at the University of North Florida. He is the author of twelve textbooks in the areas of educational leadership and curriculum and instruction. MJY1 I would close up preservice, no hyphen MJY2 This should be an en-dash not a hyphen

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205418244
• ISBN 13: 9780205418244
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240