Curriculum Landscapes and Trends

by Van Den Akker, Jan; Kuiper, Wilmad; Hameyer, Uwe

• ISBN13: 9781402017971
• ISBN10: 1402017979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Curriculum problems are everywhere: alert observers with a practiced eye and educated mind will find it almost impossible to read a newspaper without discovering curricular issues. The media often report about educational reforms or even about curriculum wars with opposing parties fiercely debating the aims, content and organization of learning. Few people analyze these trends and discussions from a curricular conceptual framework. In addition, people sometimes think that their curriculum approaches and problems are unique and context-specific. However, international experience shows us that we can learn a lot from curriculum issues elsewhere. This book aims to sharpen the eyes and minds of a broader audience in identifying, understanding, addressing and reflecting upon curriculum problems. It also aims to contribute to the increased exchange, discussion and reflection on all the current curriculum problems that form such a crucial part of learning worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Curriculum Perspectives: An Introduction	1	(10)
Jan van den Akker
Contrasting Traditions: The English Experience of Curriculum Change 1960-2000	11	(18)
Bob Moon
Images of the Inquiry Curriculum: Innovative Profiles of Primary Schools in Germany	29	(16)
Uwe Hameyer
Curriculum Reform in Israel: The Power of Individuals and Other Forces	45	(16)
Miriam Ben-Peretz
Dutch Secondary Curriculum Reform Between Ideals and Implementation	61	(12)
Jan van den Akker
Mathematics Textbooks and Their Use by Teachers: A Window into the Education World of Particular Countries	73	(28)
Birgit Pepin
Linda Haggerty
Implications of the Modular Curriculum in the Senior Secondary School in Finland	101	(16)
Jouni Valijarvi
Efforts to Implement an Open Environmental Education Curriculum	117	(20)
Karel Stokking
Substantive Trends in Curriculum Design and Implementation: An Analysis of Innovations in the Netherlands	137	(20)
Jan Terwel
Monique Volman
Wim Wardekker
Social and Political Factors in the Process of Curriculum Change	157	(20)
Jos Letschert
Joseph Kessels
Curriculum Development from a Technical-Professional Perspective	177	(22)
Wilmad Kuiper
Nienke Nieveen
Irene Visscher-Voerman
ICT Tools for Curriculum Development	199	(18)
Susan McKenney
Nienke Nieveen
Consequences of ICT for Aims, Contents, Processes, and Environments of Learning	217	(20)
Joke Voogt
Digital Learning Materials: Classification and Implications for the Curriculum	237	(18)
Ellen van den Berg
Peter Blijleven
Leanne Jansen
About the Authors	255