Understanding Curriculum
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Understanding Curriculum

An Australian Context

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eBook - PDF

Understanding Curriculum

An Australian Context

About this book

Understanding Curriculum: An Australian Context encourages readers to reflect on how curriculum theory can enhance classroom practice. This book provides a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice, outlining both traditional and progressive approaches in order to reconceptualise curriculum. Drawing on a range of perspectives, including behaviourism, constructivism and critical theory, it considers questions of curriculum ownership and culture. It explores technology, gender, equity and diversity, and Indigenous issues in depth. Key principles and debates are brought to life in each chapter through reflective questions and vignettes. Every day, teachers make countless judgements and decisions about the best learning experiences for their students. The authors show how understanding curriculum through different lenses can uncover habits and prejudices that may inhibit good teaching, and can enhance the value of the learning experiences offered to students.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781107639317
eBook ISBN
9781316144169
Topic
Education
Subtopic
History of Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 The landscape of curriculum theory
  9. Chapter 2 Introducing traditional approaches to curriculum
  10. Chapter 3 Progressive approaches to curriculum
  11. Chapter 4 Who owns the Australian Curriculum?
  12. Chapter 5 Reconceptualising curriculum work
  13. Chapter 6 Equity and (critical) diversity
  14. Chapter 7 Exploring implications of the construction of the girl/boy binary in curriculum
  15. Chapter 8 Indigenous issues and a curriculum for social justice
  16. Chapter 9 Technology and how it influences curriculum work
  17. Chapter 10 Lesson planning
  18. Chapter 11 Assessing what we value
  19. Chapter 12 Reflecting on how you can bring education to the curriculum
  20. Index