Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns
Language: English
Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 2007
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- Title
- Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns
- Author
- Schiro, Michael Stephen
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1412953162
- ISBN 13
- 9781412953160
"Schiro (Boston College) has written a text that examines curriculum theory for experience and pre-service educators with the purpose of understanding educational philosohpies or ideologies that they are likely to encounter in their teaching."
―H.B. Arnold, CHOICE
"The book provides readers with a clear, sympathetic and unbiased understanding of the four conflicting visions of curriculum that will enable them to more productively interact with educators who might hold different beliefs. The book stimulates readers to better understand their own beliefs and also to provide them with an understanding of alternate ways of thinking about the fundamental goals of education"
―SIRREADALOT.ORG
"A much needed, insightful view of alternative curriculum orientations. This is an exceptionally written book that will be useful to teachers, curriculum workers, and school administrators."
―Marc Mahlios, University of Kansas
"Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns is a thought provoking text that invites self-analysis."
―Lars J. Helgeson, University of North Dakota
Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. Author Michael Stephen Schiro analyzes four educational visions―Scholar Academic, Social Efficiency, Learner Centered, and Social Reconstruction―to enable readers to reflect on their own educational beliefs and allow them to more productively interact with educators who might hold different beliefs.
Key Features
- Provides a historical perspective on the origins of curriculum ideologies: The book places our current educational debates and issues in a historical context of enduring concerns.
- Offers a model of how educational movements can be critically analyzed: Using a post-structuralist perspective, this model enables readers to more effectively contribute to the public debate about educational issues.
- Pays careful attention to the way language is used by educators to give meaning to frequently unspoken assumptions: The text′s examination helps readers better understand curricular disagreements that occur in schools.
- Highlights the complexities of curriculum work in a social context: With an understanding of the ideological pressures exerted on them by society and colleagues, readers can put these pressures in perspective and maintain their own values, beliefs, and practices.
Intended Audience
This book is designed as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Curriculum Theory, Introduction to Curriculum and Instruction, Curriculum Philosophy, and Curriculum Theory and Practice in the department of education.
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