The third edition of Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues provides both the student and the professor of curriculum with a comprehensive treatment of the field: curriculum foundations as well as the principles and procedures for conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum. As in previous editions, it provides solid coverage of the philosophical, historical, psychological, and social foundations of curriculum. Recent research and thinking in these areas is included, providing new information on, for example: thereconceptualists, learning styles and developmental psychology, American modal personality, charter schools and privitizations, and Goals 2000. It places curriculum within the dynamic social context, both present and emerging, and presents a balanced treatment of the various issues confronting the field.
Throughout the text, the reader is engaged in considering the tension between postmodern thinking and modern thinking and how they are impacting curriculum deliberation, development, and implementation. Coverage of the social foundations of curriculum develops the idea that curriculum cannot be divorced from its social context. Thediversity of the American society and what it means for school curricula is included in this discussion.
Updated to include the most current thinking in curriculum, the text engages the reader in its discussion of both technical and nontechnical models of curriculum development. Ornstein and Hunkins discuss these models, not to urge acceptance of a narrow view of curriculum thinking, but to allow students to comprehend the assumptions behind these models and to learn how they might utilize these models in a changing and emerging curriculum environment.
Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues, continues the tradition of this popular book by providing comprehensive treatment of the curriculum field: foundations as well as the principles and procedures for conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum. Edited for a more concise presentation of material, it retains its solid coverage of the philosophical, historical, psychological, and social foundations of curriculum. The Fifth Edition has also been updated to include the most current research and thinking in curriculum including discussion of both technical and non-technical models of curriculum development and how these models might be utilized in a changing and emerging curriculum environment.
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
- Updated to include the most current research and thinking in curriculum.
- Explore the connections between curriculum theory and practice through integration ofkey curriculum theories. Previously found in the Curriculum Theory chapter, this material is now included throughout the chapters in Part II.
- Step through the curriculum process from start to finish in a new chapter organization located in Part II, Principles of Curriculum: Curriculum Design first, followed by Curriculum Development, then Curriculum Implementation, and finally Curriculum Evaluation.
- Prepare for today's standards-based curriculum environment in the Curriculum Development chapter (Ch.7), which integrates the Aims, Goals, and Objectiveschapter found in the previous edition.
- The authors have carefully revised each page for clarity and streamlined content for an optimal learning experience.
FEATURES FOR SUCCESS:
- Curriculum Tips give practical meaning to the research and insights into the curriculum process.
- Focusing Questions set the stage for the main ideas in the chapter.
- Overview Tables provide summaries of major concepts and principles.
