In "How Schools Make Race," Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy,…

Discover a bold new vision for high school mathematics that empowers students through engaging, real-world learning. For decades, mathematics education has been guided by the visionary efforts of educators and leaders who recognized the importance of making math relevant, engaging, and accessible to all students. From the foundational principles…

This important contribution to the future of education, by bestselling author and renowned cognitive scientist Allan Collins, proposes a school curriculum that will fit the needs of our modern era. Offering guidelines for deciding what is important to learn in order to become a knowledgeable person, a good citizen, a thoughtful worker, and a…

Considering the Bologna process and the consequent creation of the European Higher Education Area, which aims to create comparable and compatible academic degrees, and the fact that teachers must develop skills to thrive in our ever-changing society, we decided to study two initial teacher education programs of two different European higher…

The comprehensive, phased approach presents four sets of considerations in course redevelopment: design, interaction, media, and evaluation. Each consideration is presented in a separate chapter, which explores the extant literature and applies the latest research and understandings to design decisions. The power of this approach comes from a…

This book provides a multifaceted framework in which curricular content and methods of teaching, learning, and assessment are all tuned to adequately prepare students at the secondary school level and beyond for building a 21st century Egypt at no added cost, both during and after their formal education. This framework was developed in light of:…

Curriculum materials are among the most pervasive and powerful influences on school mathematics. In many mathematics classes, student assignments, the questions the teacher asks, the ways students are grouped, the forms of assessment, and much more originate in curriculum materials. At the same time, teachers have considerable latitude in how they…

"Early Childhood Curriculum" addresses current approaches to curriculum for infants, toddlers and young children, ages birth to eight. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the curriculum issues that student teachers and emerging practitioners will face and equips them with the decision-making tools that will ultimately enhance and promote…

The study reported in this volume adds to the growing body of evaluation studies that focus on the use of NSF-funded Standards-based high school mathematics curricula. Most previous evaluations have studied the impact of field-test versions of a curriculum. Since these innovative curricula were so new at the time of many of these studies, students…

Curriculum management can be defined as an orderly, ongoing process of review and evaluation of the entire curriculum. It controls for unnecessary course duplication and overlap by holding each course accountable to both fiscal and content criteria. Presently, most college curricula are not being controlled by effective systematic evaluation. The…

The term curriculum development is a fairly new one in the educational language, though it is being used with increasing frequency. The purpose of this book is to explain what is meant by curriculum development and what is involved in curriculum planning. It outlines the relationship among the various elements in the curriculum and explains the…

This book introduces three major orientations to curriculum--the transmission, transaction, and transformation positions--and examines the philosophical, psychological, and social/economic foundations on which they are based. Part one of the text describes these three orientations in detail and shows how they can be used as helpful tools in…

After positing the need for the bedrock of schooling (reading, writing, and computing numbers and quantities), the author examines the content and presentation of the rest of the curriculum. Two quiding principles are used in this examination: (1) surprisingly few particular pieces of knowledge and skill must be mastered by everybody in the same…

Principals can best discharge their leadership role if they develop a deep and broad knowledge base with respect to curriculum. This book offers guidelines for principals who seek to work cooperatively with the school community in developing and implementing effective curriculum. Part 1 contains three chapters that review the knowledge base. They…

This book is designed to meet the needs of experts working on curriculum planning and evaluation throughout the world, with special attention to the needs of developing countries. It presents both a model for curriculum evaluation and practical guidelines for evaluating new instructional materials. Part 1 contains a single chapter that briefly…