The eighth edition of Curriculum Planning is a selection of readings that presents the knowledge, skills, and alternative strategies needed by curriculum planners and teachers at all levels of education, from early childhood through adulthood. The book offers a variety of learning experiences for students with wide-ranging interests, learning styles, and backgrounds.
Part I, “Bases for Curriculum Planning,” emphasizes the development of knowledge and skills in the three bases of the curriculum – social forces, human development, and learning and learning styles. Part II, “Developing and Implementing the Curriculum,” includes two new chapters: Chapter 5, “Developing the Curriculum,” examines curriculum designs that can be used to develop (i.e., write) curricula. And, Chapter 6, “Curriculum and Instruction,” focuses on the interrelationships between curriculum and instruction. Part III, “The Curriculum in Action,” emphasizes the application of curriculum planning skills for educational programs for children; early, middle, and late adolescents; and adult learners. At each level, current trends, innovations, and issues are examined from both theoretical and practical viewpoints.
The eighth edition includes 43 new articles, nine of which were written for this book, and two new chapters: Ch. 5 “Developing the Curriculum” and Ch. 6 “Curriculum and Instruction.”
Table of Contents:
Part I. Bases for Curriculum Planning.
CHAPTER 1. Goals and Values.
So What Does It Take to Build a School for Democracy?
Deborah Meier.
A Morally Defensible Mission for Schools in the 21st Century.
Nel Noddings.
Perspectives on Four Curriculum Traditions.
William H. Schubert.
A Cross-Cutting Approach to the Curriculum: The Moving Wheel.
Theodore Brameld.
The Organization and Subject-Matter of General Education.
Robert M. Hutchins.
The Case for Essentialism in Education.
William C. Bagley.
The Case for Progressivism in Education.
William Heard Kilpatrick.
Traditional vs. Progressive Education.
John Dewey.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
Values: The Implicit Curriculum.
Linda Inlay.
CHAPTER 2. Social Forces: Present and Future.
Inflating the Life Rafts of NCLB: Making Public School Choice and Supplemental Services Work For Students in Troubled Schools.
Frederick M. Hess & Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Failing Our Children: No Child Left Behind Undermines Quality and Equity in Education.
Lisa Guisbond and Monty Neill.
The “Three A’s” for Creating an Inclusive Curriculum and Classroom.
Tina M. Anctil.
Multicultural Education and Curriculum Transformation.
James A. Banks.
Making a Case for Media Literacy in the Curriculum: Outcomes and Assessment.
Erica Scharrer.
Remembering Capital: On the Connection between French Fries and Education.
Michael W. Apple.
Commercialism @ schools.
Alex Molnar & Jennifer Morales.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
Teaching Media-Savvy Students about the Popular Media.
Kevin Maness.
CHAPTER 3. Human Development.
My Idea of Education.
Ashley Montagu.
Toward a Strategy for Healthy Adolescent Development.
David A. Hamburg.
The Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Moral Education.
Lawrence Kohlberg.
Woman’s Place in Man’s Life Cycle.
Carol Gilligan.
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth: Understanding diversity and promoting tolerance in schools.
Sharon L. Nichols.
Organize Schools Around Child Development.
James P. Comer.
Waldorf Schools: Education for the Head, Hands, and Heart.
Christopher Bamford & Eric Utne.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
A First-Year Teacher Tells All.
Molly Ness.
CHAPTER 4. Learning and Learning Styles.
Cognitive Science and Its Implications for Education.
Gary D. Kruse.
Let’s Put Brain Science on the Back Burner.
John T. Bruer.
Probing More Deeply into the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Howard Gardner.
Layered Curriculum Brings Teachers to Tiers.
Kathie F. Nunley.
Learning Styles from a Multicultural Perspective: The Case for Culturally Engaged Education.
Cynthia B. Dillard & Dionne A. Blue.
Authentic Assessment and Student Performance in Inclusive Secondary Schools.
M. Bruce King, Jennifer Schroeder, & David Chawszczewski.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
Lifelines: An Ethnographic Study of an IEP Student.
Elsa C. Bro.
Part II. Developing and Implementing the Curriculum.
CHAPTER 5. Approaches to Curriculum Planning.
The Sources of a Science of Education.
John Dewey.
Teachers, Public Life, and Curriculum Reform.
Henry A. Giroux.
Who Should Plan the Curriculum?
Glen Hass.
A Principal Looks Back: Standards Matter.
Kim Marshall.
Evaluating Technology’s Role in the Classroom.
Chris Rother.
The Muddle Machine: Confessions of a Textbook Editor.
Tamin Ansary.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
How To Integrate Character Education Into the Curriculum.
Jane Gilness.
CHAPTER 6. Curriculum and Instruction.
Progressive Organization of Subject Matter.
John Dewey.
Structures in Learning.
Jerome S. Bruner.
Nurturing the life of the mind.
Kathleen Vail.
The Limits of Ideology: Curriculum and the Culture Wars.
David T. Gordon.
Do Tests Show More than “TestThink”?
Nelson Maylone.
You Can Teach for Meaning.
Jay McTighe, Elliott Seif, & Grant Wiggins.
“Of Course It’s True; I saw It on the Internet!” Critical Thinking in the Internet Era.
Leah Graham & Panagiotis Takis Metaxas.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
Ideals vs. Reality in the Classroom.
Carol Lupton.
Part III. The Curriculum in Action
CHAPTER 7. Early Childhood and Elementary Curricula.
The Reggio Emilia Approach.
Lilian G. Katz & Sylvia C. Chard.
Playing is My Job.
Elizabeth Jones.
Can Kids Still Play in School? Defining and Defending Early Childhood Education in the Context of Never-Ending Reform.
Christopher Brown.
Why is Kindergarten an Endangered Species?
Linda H. Plevyak & Kathy Morris.
Giftedness in Early Childhood: The Search for Complexity and Connection.
Cathie Harrison.
Case Study in Curriculum Implementation:
Learning to Read in Kindergarten: Has Curriculum Development Bypassed the Controversies?
Bruce Joyce, Marilyn Hrycauk, & Emily Calhoun, with the Northern Lights Kindergarten Teachers.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
Building a Community in Our Classroom: The Story of Bat Town, U.S.A.
Andrea McGann Keech.
CHAPTER 8. Middle-level Curricula.
Great Transitions: Preparing Adolescents for a Changing World.
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development.
Middle School Students and Service Learning: Developing Empowered, Informed Citizens.
Peggy A. Grant.
Benchmarks of Student-Friendly Middle Schools.
M. Lee Manning.
The Homework Wars.
David Skinner.
Building Developmental Assets to Promote Success in School and in Life.
Peter C. Scales & Judy Taccogna.
Case Study in Curriculum Implementation:
Intentional Curriculum Planning in an Age of Accountability: Explorer Middle School’s Approach.
Donald E. Larsen & Tariq T. Akmal.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
Creativity workshops in the regular classroom.
Nancy King Mildrum.
CHAPTER 9. High School Curricula.
Tales of Suburban High.
Kay S. Hymowitz.
Engaging the Disengaged Student: Research Shows Why some are Immersed in Learning while Others are Indifferent.
Susan Black.
Implementing Middle School Concepts into High Schools.
M. Lee Manning & Richard Saddlemire.
New Hope for High Schools: Lessons from Reform-Minded Educators.
Theodore R. Sizer.
Transforming Seniors Who Don’t Read into Graduates Who Do.
Sherri Bell.
Can Depth Replace Coverage in the High School Curriculum?
Fred M. Newmann.
Case Study in Curriculum Implementation:
Going the Extra Mile to Smooth the Transition to High School.
Hugh Campbell.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
A Tale of Two Curriculums.
Mira Reisberg.
CHAPTER 10. Post-secondary Curricula.
Connectedness Through Liberal Education.
Ernest L. Boyer.
The Student-Centered Research University.
Gershon Vincow.
Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond.
Diane F. Halpern & Milton D. Hakel.
The Decline of the Knowledge Factory.
John Tagg.
Diversity, Democracy, and Curriculum Reform in Higher Education.
Willie J. Heggins, III.
How Americans Think About International Education and Why It Matters.
Susan Nall Bales.
Case Study in Curriculum Implementation:
Do as I Say, Not as I Do: A Personal Odyssey.
Helen C. Botnarescue, with assistance from David R. Stronch.
Teachers’ Voices–Putting Theory Into Practice:
How Critical are our Pedagogies? Privileging the Discourse of Lived Experience in the Community College Classroom.
Leonor Xóchitl Pérez & Anna Marie Christiansen.
