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Defying standardization : creating curriculum for an uncertain future / Christopher H. Tienken.
Van Pelt Library LB3060.83 .T56 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tienken, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Standards--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Standards.
- United States.
- Curriculum planning--United States.
- Curriculum planning.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 175 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
- Summary:
- Defying Standardization: Creating Curriculum for an Uncertain Future pierces the veil of misinformation surrounding the push to standardize the curriculum expectations for 56 million public school children. It provides a high-energy, passionate, and well-researched argument of what curriculum should and can be to facilitate the development of unstandardized skills and dispositions necessary for a globally connected society. Defying Standardization dismantles the myths and lies surrounding international test rankings and demonstrates that there is no relationship to economic indicators or skills that drives the innovation economy. This book provides practical examples for how educators, students, and parents can defy standardization with locally developed, evidence-informed, and globally literate practices to facilitate the development of customized curricula. This book is for those who yearn for a vibrant, innovative, and creative school system in which all students are provided opportunities to pursue their passions and interests in ways that will prepare them to be well-rounded individuals and democratic citizens in a global community. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- One for all
- The competitiveness hoax
- Global dominance
- Fatally flawed foundations
- Less standardized for the future
- Unstandardized beginnings : theory into action
- Structure for the long term.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tienken, Christopher, author. Defying standardization
- ISBN:
- 9781475815634
- 1475815638
- 9781475815641
- 1475815646
- OCLC:
- 953708634
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