1st Edition

Curriculum and Imagination Process Theory, Pedagogy and Action Research

By James McKernan Copyright 2008
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure. This comprehensive and authoritative book: offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectives... Read more

Part 1: Curriculum: The Theoretic Domain  1. Curriculum and its Ideological Conception  2. Curriculum, Quality and Freedom  3. Curriculum Design and Theorizing  4: Some Limitations of the Objectives Model in Curriculum  5. A Process Inquiry Model for Curriculum  Part 2: Democratic Pedagogy: The Practical  6. The Teacher as Researcher: Action Research as the Basis for Professional Development  7: Action Research and Philosophy: Origins, Nature and Conduct of Inquiry  8. The Action Research Seminar and Democratic Pedagogy  9. Controversial Issues, Evidence and Pedagogy  10. Ethics, Inquiry and Practical Reason: Towards an Improved Pedagogy  Part 3: Teacher Values and Teacher Education  11. Teachers’ Human Values and Ideologies  Part 4: Curriculum and Evaluation: The Critical Domain  12. The Countenance of Evaluation and the Special Place of Action Research

Biography

James McKernan