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100 1 _aKelly, A. V.
_q(Albert Victor)
245 1 4 _aThe curriculum :
_btheory and practice /
_cA.V. Kelly.
250 _a6th ed.
260 _aThousand Oaks, CA :
_bSAGE Publications,
_c2009.
300 _axiii, 321p. :
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aForeword xiii Introduction 1 (4) The Curriculum and the Study of the Curriculum 5 (27) What is the curriculum? 7 (6) The educational curriculum 7 (2) The total curriculum 9 (1) The `hidden' curriculum 10 (1) The planned curriculum and the received curriculum 11 (1) The formal curriculum and the informal curriculum 12 (1) The centrality of the teacher 13 (4) `Teacher-proofing' does not work 14 (1) The teacher's `make or break' role 14 (3) Key aspects of Curriculum Studies 17 (6) Strategies for curriculum change and control 17 (1) Assessment, evaluation, appraisal and accountability 18 (1) The politicization of curriculum 19 (1) Curriculum planning 20 (3) What is involved in the study of the curriculum? 23 (9) A study in its own right 23 (1) Practice as well as theory 24 (1) Not an applied science 25 (2) Beyond methodology 27 (1) Conceptual analysis 28 (4) Knowledge and the Curriculum 32 (24) The problematic nature of human knowledge 33 (10) Absolutist theories 33 (2) Objections to absolutism 35 (8) The politics of knowledge 43 (9) Totalitarianism - open and concealed 43 (2) Resistance to change 45 (1) Ideological dominance 46 (1) The legitimation of discourse 47 (2) The manipulation of language 49 (1) The use of metaphor 50 (2) Responses to the problem of the politics of knowledge 52 (4) Curriculum as Content and Product 56 (33) Curriculum as content and education as transmission 56 (11) The philosophical case 57 (1) Education as cultural transmission 58 (5) The political selection of curriculum content 63 (4) Curriculum as product and education as instrumental 67 (16) The aims and objectives movement 67 (4) Some problems presented by this model 71 (12) The combined model - `mastery learning' 83 (3) The unsuitability of these models for planning which is to be genuinely educational 86 (1) Summary 87 (2) Curriculum as Process and Development 89 (29) An overtly value-laden and ideological model 90 (1) The growth of this view 91 (2) Early conceptual inadequacies 92 (1) A sound theoretical base 92 (1) Curriculum as process - aims and principles 93 (5) Procedural principles 94 (1) Principles and aims 95 (2) Intrinsic aims 97 (1) Education as development 98 (5) Active and passive views of humanity 98 (1) Individual autonomy 99 (1) Education as individual experience 100 (1) The growth of competence 101 (1) Development on every front 102 (1) The social dimension of development - democratic empowerment 103 (3) Democratic imperatives 104 (1) A partnership curriculum 105 (1) Some criticisms of the developmental model 106 (6) Political objections 106 (1) Philosophical objections 107 (4) The contribution of developmental psychology 111 (1) The major merits of this model 112 (1) Curriculum ideologies and planning models - implications and conclusions 113 (5) The need for conceptual clarity 114 (1) The need for informed choices and justification 115 (3) Curriculum Development, Change and Control 118 (29) National agencies for curriculum development - the work of the Schools Council 119 (6) A politically independent professional agency 120 (1) Lessons from the School Council's work 121 (3) Reconstitution and disestablishment 124 (1) The dissemination of innovation and change 125 (9) Models of dissemination 126 (2) The inadequacies of the centre-periphery approach 128 (3) Some consequent modifications 131 (3) School-based curriculum development 134 (4) Key features of these developments 135 (3) Action research and `the teacher as researcher' 138 (4) Continuous self-evaluation 139 (1) External support 140 (1) The teacher's role continues to be central 141 (1) Changing the curriculum through centralized control 142 (5) Testing and inspection 143 (4) Assessment, Evaluation, Appraisal and Accountability 147 (40) Pupil assessment 147 (12) Assessment and the curriculum 148 (2) Uses of assessment 150 (1) Purposes of assessment 150 (1) The realities of National Curriculum assessment 151 (1) Styles of assessment 152 (7) Evaluation theory 159 (11) What is curriculum evaluation? 160 (3) Developed approaches to curriculum evaluation 163 (7) The politicization of curriculum evaluation 170 (4) Evaluation and pupil assessment 172 (1) Evaluation as curriculum control 173 (1) Teacher appraisal and accountability 174 (6) Models of accountability 175 (3) Current policies and practices 178 (2) Implications for educational research 180 (5) Limitations on research 181 (1) The `school effectiveness movement' 182 (3) Summary 185 (2) The Politicization of the School Curriculum 187 (26) Direct and indirect political influences 188 (2) Competing ideologies 190 (1) The early historical context 190 (1) The `Golden Age' 191 (1) Contradictory developments 192 (4) The challenge to teacher autonomy 193 (1) The initial ambivalence of officialdom 194 (2) The shift to direct intervention and control 196 (17) The end of the `Golden Age' 196 (2) Major landmarks in the move towards central control 198 (11) Events since 1988 209 (4) What the Average Politician Understands about Education 213 (1) The Flaws Endemic to Central Planning by Politicians 214 (27) Falling standards 215 (3) The category error of adopting a commercial planning model 218 (10) Competition rather than co-operation 219 (3) An increased emphasis on management 222 (1) Privatization 223 (2) Planning by targets 225 (3) Knee-jerk, short-term planning 228 (6) Equality and sameness 229 (1) The assimilation of knowledge 230 (1) Underachievment and self-image 231 (1) Testing and measurement 231 (1) Faith schools 232 (1) Professional collaboration 232 (2) The effects of centralized control on the development of curriculum theory and practice 234 (2) The refusal to learn from developments in curriculum theory 234 (1) The de-intellectualization of the curriculum debate 235 (1) The premises of direct intervention and control 236 (5) That the purpose of the schooling system is only to support the economy 236 (1) That the education system is deficient 237 (1) That teachers should be merely operators 237 (1) That educational planning is a scientific activity 238 (1) Conclusions 239 (2) A Democratic and Educational Curriculum 241 (35) The pressures for a national curriculum 242 (2) Before the National Curriculum 243 (1) The case for a common core to the curriculum 244 (3) The argument from the nature of knowledge 244 (1) The argument from the principle of equality 245 (2) Some problems and difficulties 247 (2) The nature of knowledge and values 247 (1) The politics of knowledge 248 (1) A `balanced' curriculum 249 (3) A metaphor 249 (1) Planning the curriculum as a totality 250 (1) Balancing other factors 250 (1) Balance as an individual matter 251 (1) Common processes and principles 252 (3) Learning through subjects 252 (1) The need for guidelines and broad procedural principles 252 (1) Areas of experience 253 (1) Curriculum as process and education as development 254 (1) The political case for the National Curriculum 255 (4) The lack of a theoretical frame 255 (1) The underlying instrumentalism 256 (1) Its intrinsic elitism 257 (2) The National Curriculum and curriculum research and development 259 (5) Developmental psychology 259 (1) A developmentally appropriate curriculum 259 (1) Curriculum dissemination 260 (1) Assessment and evaluation 261 (1) Two underlying messages 262 (2) Implications for curriculum theory and research 264 (3) The importance of the freedom to experiment 264 (1) Maintaining the understandings and insights 265 (1) The loss of opportunities for empirical research 266 (1) Democratic imperatives 267 (3) Democracy as a moral system 267 (1) Anti-democratic ideologies 268 (1) Loss of freedom 269 (1) The key features of a democratic and educational national curriculum 270 (6) A curriculum for equality 270 (1) The role of the professional educator 271 (1) Key features 272 (1) Fundamental principles 273 (3) A chronology of curriculum development and change 276 (4) Bibliography 280 (17) Government reports and other official publications referred to in the text 297 (3) Author index 300 (5) Subject index 305
520 _aThis edition outlines what form a curriculum should take if it is concerned to promote a genuine form of education for a genuinely democratic society. The author summarises and explains the main aspects of curriculum theory and shows how these can and should be translated into practice
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