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Authors: Flinders & Thor, Stephen Thorton
ISBN-13: 9780415945226, ISBN-10: 0415945224
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Flinders & Thor

Book Synopsis

This highly anticipated second edition retains key features of the successful first edition while incorporating an updated introduction, new and timely essays, and user-friendly reference sections on further reading.

Table of Contents

1Scientific method in curriculum-making9
2My pedagogic creed17
3The public school and the immigrant child25
4Dare the school build a new social order?29
5The rise of scientific curriculum-making and its aftermath37
6Basic principles of curriculum and instruction51
7School curriculum reform in the United States61
8Objectives71
9Educational objectives - help or hindrance?85
10The daily grind93
11The practical : a language for curriculum103
12Pedagogy of the oppressed125
13Curriculum and consciousness135
14The reconceptualization of curriculum studies149
15The Paideia proposal159
16The false promise of the Paideia : a critical review of the Paideia proposal163
17Implementation as mutual adaptation : change in classroom organization171
18Controlling the work of teachers183
19How schools shortchange girls : three perspectives on curriculum205
20HIV/AIDS education : toward a collaborative curriculum229
21The four R's - an alternative to the Tyler rationale253
22The burdens of the new curricularist261
23Voluntary national tests would improve education271
24Creating new inequalities : contradictions of reform275
25Teaching for cultural literacy : a curriculum study285
26What does it mean to say a school is doing well?297
27Silence on gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum307
28The importance of multicultural education315
29"In these shoes is the silent call of the earth" : meditations on curriculum integration, conceptual violence, and the ecologies of community and place323
30The aims of education331

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