Overview
- Offers a new perspective on curriculum, learning and assessment matters
- Proposes an alternative curriculum framework that acts as a corrective to the flawed models of curriculum currently in use in the world
- Develops a model of curriculum that has the potential to improve the life-chances of children within our systems of education
Part of the book series: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices (ENSIP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Critical pedagogy
- Foundationalism
- Globalization Mechanisms
- Innovative pedagogical experimentation
- Post-modern curriculum
- Scientific curriculum development
- Socio-cultural learning
- autonomous instrumentalism
- critical instrumentalism
- epistemic foundationalism
- international education comparisons
- learning transitions
- productive learning environments
- learning and instruction
About this book
This book offers a detailed analysis and assessment of the state of education round the world. The argument is made that education and curriculum practices are deficient for two reasons. The first is the adoption by governments, policy-makers and practitioners of a set of knowledge practices that can be broadly characterised as empiricist and technicist, and which has come to dominate how curricula are constructed and certainly how education systems and their work can be described. The second is the adoption of a model of curriculum that is both backward-looking and, in its own terms, confused and muddled. This book then sets out an alternative model, which is more cogent and better focused on human wellbeing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Curriculum, Learning and Assessment
Authors: David Scott
Series Title: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22831-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22830-3Published: 13 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34705-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22831-0Published: 03 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2570-0251
Series E-ISSN: 2570-026X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 210
Topics: Curriculum Studies, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation