Curriculum Planning

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Originally published in 1992, and then re-released as two volumes, the third edition returns to a single volume and includes 21 key topics in the field. The topics comprise the latest trends and issues, written in Marsh's clear and accessible style, and are an important source of material for an international readership at every level. The book is divided into six sections, including: * Curriculum planning and development * Curriculum management * Teaching perspectives * Collaborative involvement in curriculum * Curriculum ideology In this third edition many of the latest curriculum trends and issues are included such as standards-based frameworks, using technology in teaching and learning modes, standards based reforms and politics of decision-making. This up-to-date edition will be essential reading for anyone involved in curriculum planning or development and will be especially useful to students training to be teachers and practising teachers following professional development programmes.

Paradigm debates between modern and postmodern conceptions of curriculum and supervision and the impact on school practice are the primary contributions of this volume. Each contributor presents a defininte point of view, an explanation of how this paradigm affects practice, and a realistically presented case study that demonstrates the paradigm in action.

Alicia De Alba is National Researcher in Education at the Center for Studies of the University (Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

The International Handbook of Curriculum Research is the first collection of reports on scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide. Thirty-four essays on 28 nations, framed by four introductory chapters, provide a panoromic and, for several nations (on which there are multiple essays), an indepth view of the state of curriculum studies globally. As a whole this comprehensive, precedent-setting volume contributes significantly to the internationalization of curriculum studies and the formation of a worldwide field. Curriculum studies straddles the divide between contemporary social science and the humanities. Research in the field is sometimes quantitative, often qualitative, sometimes arts-based, sometimes informed by humanities fields, such as philosophy, literary theory, and cultural studies. It is influenced as well by social science fields, such as psychology, political and social theory, and by interdisciplinary fields, such as women's and gender studies and post-colonial studies. The use of the term "research" in the title is intended to emphasize, despite its paradigmatic differences, the field's relative unity in the project of understanding-a term that includes both theoretical and practical interests and initiatives. The International Handbook of Curriculum Research will serve usefully as the main text in courses devoted exclusively to internationalization and globalization in curriculum studies, and as a supplemental text in general curriculum courses. For prospective and practicing teachers in the United States and elsewhere, it will contextualize national school reform efforts. As a library, personal, and pedagogical resource, this Handbook is an indispensable volume for curriculum studies scholars and students around the world.

This sixteen book series written and designed for busy primary school teachers takes one step-by-step through every stage of coordinating a subject. The books tackle the two main aspects of the coordinator's role: coordinating and subject leadership. It accomplishes this task by establishing systems and common practice, providing information, offering expertise and direction, guiding the development of the subject, and raising standards.

Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies, and material that teachers can use immediately. Written to meet the needs of subject leaders, this comprehensive set of books will be an essential addition to the staffroom bookshelf.