This article responds to rejoinder by Courtade, Spooner, Browder, and Jimenez (2012) of our initial article (Ayres, Lowrey, Douglas, & Sievers, 2011) describing the importance in making individualized curriculum decisions for students with severe disabilities. We point out our agreements with the rejoinder (reiterating statements from our…

This 2-volume document reports on a study to (1) explore the use of network analysis as a means of describing and comparing selected instances of the curriculum change process, (2) compare the selected instances with each other, and (3) compare five conceptualizations of the change process when applied to specific change situations. (Considerable…

This article proposes a new look at an old dispute in the area of curriculum theory, that of logical and psychological organization. First, erroneous assumptions about both of these forms of organization are examined. Unwarranted associations with the immaturity-maturity continuum, the process-product distinction, and the intellectual-practical…

Sets out a complete theory of curriculum, examines the constraints on the theory, and suggests several points at which curriculum research might be distinguished from learning and instruction. (Author/DE)

The study of curriculum may be characterized as an inquiry into the range of ways in which the subject matters of teacher, student, subject, and milieu can be seen. A review of the literature indicates that curriculum theory has been under development for several years. However, considerable research and conceptual formulation must be done to…

Curriculum is an event which goes beyond the curriculum guide because of the many interactions involved. It is situated in a classroom, personal, social, historical, and political context. The implications of the definition for curriculum developers and researchers are discussed. (MT)

Described are some of the activities, roles, problems and projects of the Education (Research) Committee of the Association for Science Education. (PEB)

The far-reaching implications of curriculum change for educational reform and renewal was the subject of a CERI workshop, June 29-July 4, 1970. Reprinted from The Nature of the Curriculum for the Eighties and Onwards,'' Paris, CERI, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1972. (Editor)

EDUCATIONAL THEORIZING IS A NEEDED ENDEAVOR IN THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PROCESS. WHILE THEORIZING HAS OFTEN BEEN EQUATED WITH PHILOSOPHIZING, IT IS NOT THE WHOLE OF IT, SINCE PHILOSOPHY HAS OTHER TRADITIONS WHICH MAKE THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION A LEGITIMATE PART OF EDUCATIONAL THEORIZING. FOUR KINDS OF THEORIZING HAVE BEEN SORTED OUT--(1)…

There seem to be few answers to questions asked concerning how a curriculum might be structured, or how a curriculum is currently formulated, and what the implications might be of structuring a curriculum in various ways. Most of the literature in this area consists of either arguments for "psychological" versus "logical" structure or inconsistent…

A plausible set of concepts useful for theory, research, development, and evaluation concerned with content sequencing is explicated. These concepts provide a framework for discussing sequencing alternatives and their implications. (Author/RC)

This paper begins a construction of curricular history by addressing the social orientation of Thorndike's psychology and its implications for the curriculum field. (MM)

The Curriculum Matrix developed by A. W. Foshay (1991) is a broad, comprehensive conception of curriculum, incorporating a range of perspectives and meanings often overlooked. This paper situates Foshay's matrix in the field of curriculum studies. By focusing on Foshay's interpretation of five curricular purposes (aesthetic, physical,…

Long-term observational research was conducted in the classrooms of two inductee teachers to examine their formal policy documents, curriculum planning, and curriculum enactment. The purpose was to examine the gap between the policy and planning materials and the enacted curriculum to determine what really counted as curriculum in the classrooms.…