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Originally published in 1979. This edited collection of ten significant papers critically surveys a decade of intellectual effort in selected areas of curriculum studies, providing an excellent set of teaching and learning resources in an area where the usual text book can be counter-productive.
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Introduction: Curriculum Studies in Retrospect and Prospect Philip H. Taylor Part 1: The Search For New Paradigms 1. Humanistic Trends and the Curriculum Field Elliot W. Eisner 2. The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies William F. Pinar 3. Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches to the Evaluation of Learning Stephen Kemmis 4. An Action Frame of Reference as a Register for Curriculum Discourse Rex Oram Part 2: The Ideological Dimension 5. Curriculum, Culture and Ideology Frank Musgrove 6. Piaget, Marx and the Political Ideology of Schooling Barry A. Kaufman 7. Lessons from a Comprehensive School System for Curriculum Theory and Research Daniel Kallos and Ulf P. Lundgren Part 3: New Directions In Curriculum Research 8. Understanding the Curriculum: the Approach through Case Studies K. E.Shaw 9. Technology versus Craft; a Ten Year Perspective on Innovation Ernest R. House 10. Research into Classroom Processes: a Review of Ten Years’ Work Ian Westbury
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Philip H. Taylor
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Originally published in 1979. This edited collection of ten significant papers critically surveys a decade of intellectual effort in selected areas of curriculum studies, providing an excellent set of teaching and learning resources in an area where the usual text book can be counter-productive.
