Curriculum Theory
Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns

Second Edition

Michael Stephen Schiro

Courses:
Curriculum Theory & Development | Philosophical Foundations of Education

April 2012 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The essential, comprehensive guide for developing and evolving your educational vision

The Second Edition of 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 more productively interact with educators who might hold different beliefs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Curriculum Ideologies

Chapter 2: Scholar Academic Ideology

Chapter 3: Social Efficiency Ideology

Chapter 4: Learner Centered Ideology

Chapter 5: Social Reconstruction Ideology

Chapter 6: A Comparative Overview of the Curriculum Ideologies

Chapter 7: Individual Perspectives on the Curriculum Ideologies

Appendix: Curriculum Ideologies Inventory

References

Index

About the Author

Helps with course planning. Too advanced for the level of the course.

Margaret Ferrara

Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Nevada - Reno

January 1, 2013

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Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

In Chapter 2, the section on teaching was reorganized and a new subsection added on Teachers as Transmitters, Mediators, or Translators.
Several new sections on the Learner Centered ideology, including one major section that provides a description and analysis of a Learner Centered curriculum. Other sections include elements such as a discussion of the relationship between knowledge and experience, and the nature and structure of the learning environment of the ideology.
Seven new sections have been added to Chapter 6, including six play in which four teachers discuss their beliefs about enduring curricular issues and related current "hot" curriculum topics in ways that highlight the differences between the ideologies.
An additional section in Chapter 6 discusses differences in how each of the ideologies takes advantage of the use of technology in curriculum and during instruction.

Visit www.sagepub.com/schiroextensionactivities for access to valuable extension activities for each chapter. In addition, the following additional activities are available at this site:

Curriculum ideologies inventory
Curriculum scope, sequence, integration, and continuity simulation
Curriculum materials
Example of an ideologies play
Comments on extension activities for faculty teaching courses on curriculum

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