Curriculum trends : a reference handbook / Valerie J. Janesick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janesick, Valerie J.

Series:

Contemporary education issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Curricula--United States.

Education.

Education--Curricula.

United States.

Curriculum planning--United States.

Curriculum planning.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Physical Description:

xv, 235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction and Framing the Field 1

Curriculum Trends as a Painting 2

The First Stroke: The Traditionalist View of Curriculum Trends 2

What Did We Learn from the Traditional View? 3

A Stroke of Dewey 4

The Next Stroke: The Reconceptualists 6

The Cognitive Process Orientation 6

The Technological Orientation 7

The Self-Actualization Orientation 7

The Social Reconstructionist Orientation 8

The Academic Rationalist Approach 8

Another Stroke: The Postmodern Trends in Curriculum 9

Postmodernism: In Bold Strokes 10

Postmodernism and Applications for Curriculum Trends 10

Legal Cases That Have Shaped Curriculum Trends 11

Plessy v. Ferguson 11

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 12

Lau v. Nichols 13

Daniel v. State of California 13

Americans with Disabilities Act 14

The Education of All Handicapped Children Act Amendments of 1990 14

Integrated Thematic Units 15

Example 1 Bear Theme Study

Grade One 15

Example 2 Another World Theme

Middle School 24

What Do the Units Teach Us about the Curriculum Process? 42

The Next Strokes: Curriculum as Ethical, Aesthetic, and Autobiographical Work 42

Autobiography as a Natural Evolution in Curriculum 42

What Can We Learn from Autobiography as a Curriculum Trend? 50

Combining Elements of the Autobiographical, the Ethical, and the Aesthetic 51

Reactions 54

Home Schooling as an Alternative Curriculum Trend 56

The Maria Montessori Model: Schooling and Curriculum 58

Rudolf Steiner and the Waldorf Schools 59

Writing across the Curriculum and Journal Writing as Postmodern Trends 60

Arts-Based Curriculum Trends 67

Summary of Postmodern Alternative Curriculum Trends 69

Curriculum Trends, School Reform, Standards, and Assessment 69

Some Ethical Problems with the Standards Movement 71

Learning from the Texas School Reform Case 71

Teaching for the Test 74

A Major Contradiction: The New Discrimination 75

Continuing Ethical Questions Regarding Norm-Referenced Tests 76

Is the NRT Test Score Accurate? 77

Race, Class, and Gender Bias in Testing 77

Ethical Questions Raised as a Result of the Work on Multiple Intelligences: Searching for New Ways to Explain Learning 79

No Easy Questions: The Manufactured Crisis 81

Understanding Curriculum through Standards and Assessment 83

Reviewing Some Problems with High-Stakes Testing 84

What the Activist Organization Fairtest Is Teaching Us 85

The Major Problems 86

Hopeful Signs 86

From the 1890s to the 1920s: The Pretraditionalist Era 93

From the 1920s to the 1950s: The Traditionalist Era 94

From the 1960s to the 1980s: The Reconceptualist Era 95

The Traditionalists 96

The Social Behviorists 96

The Experientialists 97

From the 1980s Onward: The Postmodern Critical Era 97

Chapter 3 Organizations That Support or Relate to Curriculum Trends 101

Related Key Organizations 101

Information Providers 104

Related Educational Groups 107

Chapter 4 Print and Nonprint Resources 121

Major Texts about Curriculum Trends 121

Selected Articles Regarding Curriculum Trends 128

Journals in the Field 136

Videotapes Related to Curriculum Trends 139

Discussion Lists 155

Chapter 5 Curriculum Trends for the Future: Hope and Possibility 157

Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Curriculum 157

Integrating the Arts into the Curriculum 160

Critical Thinking, Critical Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies and Writing in the Curriculum 161

An Example of a Reflection on Using a Journal to Develop Reflective and Critical Thinking Skills in Classroom Settings 161

Why Journal Writing? 162

Authentic Assessment 174

Characteristics of Typical Tests and Authentic Tasks 175

The Assessment Discussion 176

Some History on Assessment 177

Authentic Assessment in Today's World 178

How Authentic Assessment Is Suited for Today's World 180

Appendix A A Glossary of Terms Related to Curriculum Trends 183

Appendix B Questions for Reflection on Curriculum as Ethical Text 187

Appendix C Reflections on Curriculum as Aesthetic Text 189

Appendix D Curriculum as Autobiographical Text 191

Appendix E Curriculum as Spiritual Text: An Example 197

Appendix F Sample of a Reflective Journal Entry 203

Appendix G Samples of Reflective Journal Writing as a Performance Task 211

Appendix H Examples of Reflection on Curriculum as Racial Text 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

185109461X

1851094660

OCLC:

52514357