Curriculum Leadership: Strategies for Development and Implementation [Hardcover]

This text helps current and aspiring administrators, teachers, and curriculum directors successfully restructure, enhance, and implement school K–12 curriculum. Now in its Fifth Edition, this foundational book highlights 21st century educational ideas and advocacy, while also remaining focused on tried and true strategies for meeting state and national standards in today’s diverse classrooms. With the support of this thought-provoking and extensively researched text, readers will develop a working and thorough foundation of curriculum to effectively implement in the classrooms of the future.

This text helps current and aspiring administrators, teachers, and curriculum directors successfully restructure, enhance, and implement school K–12 curriculum. Now in its Fifth Edition, this foundational book highlights 21st century educational ideas and advocacy, while also remaining focused on tried and true strategies for meeting state and national standards in today’s diverse classrooms. With the support of this thought-provoking and extensively researched text, readers will develop a working and thorough foundation of curriculum to effectively implement in the classrooms of the future.

Preface
PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF CURRICULUM
Chapter 1. The Nature of Curriculum
The Concept of Curriculum
The Types of Curricula
Components of the Curriculum
The Mastery, the Organic, and the Enrichment Curricula
The Hidden Curriculum
Summary
Applications
Case Study: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
The Challenge
Key Issues or Questions
Webliography
References
Chapter 2. Curriculum History: The Perspective of the Past
Academic Scientism (1l‡