Curriculum and Assessment uses a storylines and narrative approach to provide students with a solid understanding of the theoretical considerations to the practicalities of teaching curriculum. Stories are used as a way of recognising the dynamic and shifting themes of curriculum and to enable understanding about the universal threads and issues on which they are based. The author, a leader in the field, uses her involvement in the planning for the National curriculum to provide the most up-to-date and thorough coverage of the nature of curriculum.

 

• The storylines approach shows students how and why curriculum development is important by demonstrating its ‘real life’ impact.
• The most important curriculum questions, critical problems and issues faced by educators are dealt with in an engaging and user-friendly approach.

1. Introduction:

2. Conflicting Ideologies: Objectives or Outcomes?

3. Curriculum as Content and /or Process?

4. Learning & Assessment Processes

5. Stories of Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

6. School as Social Mirror or Social Transformer?

7. National curriculum and teacher flexibility

8. Stories of curriculum as a lever for reform

9. Curriculum futures: schools as real or virtual place?

10. Critically reflecting on curriculum storylines

Robyn Ewing – Acting Dean, faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

 

An Instructor's Resource Manual is available to adopters of this text. This Manual is designed to assist lecturers and tutors using Curriculum and Assessment: A Narrative Approach in their course.

The IRM contains additional Icebreakers, Tutorial Activities, Sample Essay Topics and Short-Answer Questions for each chapter of the text.
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Additionally, a mini-chapter: “Reporting Student Curriculum Outcomes to Parents and the Community”, is available to download here. It gives lecturers and students an update on reporting student curriculum outcomes to parents and the community.