Reconceptualizing School Based Curriculum Development
Author: Colin J. Marsh
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780850005004
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Reconceptualizing Curriculum Development
Author: James Henderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1317648765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconceptualizing Curriculum Development provides accessible, clear guidance on curriculum problem solving and educational leadership through the practice of a synoptic curriculum study. This practice integrates three influential interpretations of curriculum—curriculum as deliberative artistry, curriculum as complicated conversation, and curriculum as currere—with John Dewey’s lifetime work on reflective inquiry. At its heart, the book advances a way of studying as a way of living with reference to the question: How might I live as a democratic educator? The study guidance is organized as an open-ended scaffolding of three embedded reflective inquiries informed by four deliberative conversations. Study recommendations are provided by a carefully selected team. The field-tested study-based approach is illustrated through a multi-layered, multi-voiced narrative collage of four experienced teachers’ personal journeys of understanding in a collegial study context. Applying William Pinar’s argument that a "conceptual montage" enabling teachers to lead complicated conversations should be the focus for curriculum development in the field’s current ‘post-reconceptualist’ moment, the book moves forward the educational aim of facilitating a holistic subject/self/social understanding through the practice of a balanced hermeneutics of suspicion and trust. It closes with a discussion of cross-cultural collaboration and advocacy, reflecting the interest of curriculum scholars in a wide range of countries in this study-based, lead-learning approach to curriculum development.
Reconceptualizing STEM Education
Author: Richard A. Duschl
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1317458508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconceptualizing STEM Education explores and maps out research and development ideas and issues around five central practice themes: Systems Thinking; Model-Based Reasoning; Quantitative Reasoning; Equity, Epistemic, and Ethical Outcomes; and STEM Communication and Outreach. These themes are aligned with the comprehensive agenda for the reform of science and engineering education set out by the 2015 PISA Framework, the US Next Generation Science Standards and the US National Research Council’s A Framework for K-12 Science Education. The new practice-focused agenda has implications for the redesign of preK-12 education for alignment of curriculum-instruction-assessment; STEM teacher education and professional development; postsecondary, further, and graduate studies; and out-of-school informal education. In each section, experts set out powerful ideas followed by two eminent discussant responses that both respond to and provoke additional ideas from the lead papers. In the associated website highly distinguished, nationally recognized STEM education scholars and policymakers engage in deep conversations and considerations addressing core practices that guide STEM education.
Reconceptualizing School-based Curriculum Development
Author: Colin J. Marsh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781850005957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed analysis of how and why school-based curriculum development (SBCD) occurs is provided in this book. Case studies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are presented to show that despite different contexts, common patterns exist, especially in terms of participant motivation and processes. An innovations metaphor provides the theoretical basis of the analysis, focusing on individual staff member motivation and political considerations. The first section examines different contexts of SBCD and presents a conceptual framework for analysis. Four case studies from each of the four countries are described in the second section. This section reexamines the theoretical basis in light of the case studies and discusses current and future issues in SBCD. Seven tables, eight figures, and an extensive bibliography are included. (LMI)
Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education
Author: Sibel Erduran
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-08-20
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9401790574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach popularized by Wittgenstein, defining science as a cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional system whose heterogeneous characteristics and influences should be more thoroughly reflected in science education. They seek wherever possible to clarify their developing thesis with visual tools that illustrate how their ideas can be practically applied in science education. The volume’s holistic representation of science, which includes the aims and values, knowledge, practices, techniques, and methodological rules (as well as science’s social and institutional contexts), mirrors its core aim to synthesize perspectives from the fields of philosophy of science and science education. The authors believe that this more integrated conception of nature of science in science education is both innovative and beneficial. They discuss in detail the implications for curriculum content, pedagogy, and learning outcomes, deploy numerous real-life examples, and detail the links between their ideas and curriculum policy more generally.
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education
Author: Marianne N. Bloch
Publisher: Rethinking Childhood
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433123665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. Audiences include students in graduate courses focused on early childhood and primary education, critical cultural studies of childhood, critical curriculum studies and critical theories.
Curriculum Leadership
Author: Allan A. Glatthorn
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1412992192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurriculum Leadership: Strategies for Development and Implementation, Third Edition is a one-of-a-kind resource written for educational leaders, teachers, and administrators. Responding to the need for globally connected classrooms and innovative leadership, this unique text provides a rich and inclusive foundation of curriculum. The authors draw upon a wide range of research and experience to provide readers with creative, up-to-date curriculum strategies and ideas. In sharing innovative programs, learning experiences, and new approaches, they build a solid connection for curriculum development from theory to practice, helping future leaders in education meet the global challenges of our time.
Curriculum Studies
Author: William Pinar
Publisher: Classics in Education
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781891928086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese groundbreaking essays have become foundational to the field of curriculum studies. The contributors are curriculum theorists who represent an avant-garde of the movement.
Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives
Author: Donna E. Alvermann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-07-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1317433866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives, Second Edition focuses on exploring the impact of young people's identity-making practices in mediating their perceptions of themselves as readers and writers in an era of externally mandated reforms. What is different in the Second Edition is its emphasis on the importance of valuing adolescents' perspectives--in an era of skyrocketing interest in improving literacy instruction at the middle and high school levels driven by externally mandated reforms and accountability measures. A central concern is the degree to which this new interest takes into account adolescents’ personal, social, and cultural experiences in relation to literacy learning. In this new edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives students’ voices and perspectives are featured front and center in every chapter. Particular attention is given throughout to multiple literacies--especially how information and new communication technologies are changing learning from and with text. Nine of the 15 chapters are new; all other chapters are thoroughly updated. The volume is structured around four main themes: * Situating Adolescents’ Literacies–addressing how young people use favorite texts to perform their identities; how they counter school-based constructions of incompetence; and how they re/construct their literate identities in relation to certain kinds of gendered expectations, pedagogies, and cultural resources; * Positioning Youth as Readers and Writers–stressing the importance of classroom discourse, cultural capital, agency, and democratic citizenship in mediating adolescents’ literate identities; * Mediating Practices in Young People’s Literacies–looking at issues of language, social class, race, and culture in shaping how adolescents represent themselves and are represented by others; and * Changing Teachers, Teaching Changes–capturing the productive ambiguities associated with teaching urban adolescents to read and write in changing times, encouraging students to conduct action research on topics that are personally relevant, and using ‘enabling constraints’ as a concept to formulate policies on adolescent literacy instruction. Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives, Second Edition is an essential volume for researchers, faculty, teacher educators, and graduate students in the field of adolescent literacy education.
Reconceptualizing School-Based Curriculum Development
Author: Colin Marsh
Publisher:
Published: 1990-05-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780850005950
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