Chapter 12- Curriculum Issues and Trends

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Chapter 12- Curriculum Issues and Trends
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What are the Issues and Trends?

• National Curriculum
• Censored Curriculum
• Textbook Curriculum
• Compensatory Education
• Multicultural Education

• School Reform
• Moral Education
• Technology
• Curriculum Politics

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National Curriculum

• National Standards
• Goals 2000

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Clarifying the Federal Role in Education

• Assistance to states and local school districts
• NSBA position

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Censored Curriculum

• Sanctity of the family
• Criticism of the free enterprise system
• anti-Americanism
• Obscene language
• Racial bias
• Creationism vs Evolution

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Textbooks

• Textbooks are the curriculum
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Alternatives
• Computer-assisted Instruction
• Customized Publishing

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Compensatory Curriculum

• At-Risk Students
• Problems
• no significant differences in learning
• less output in relation to input
• fade out process
• soft data

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Multicultural Education

• Melting Pot vs Salad Bowl
• Draws from the diversity of the human family
• Procedural knowledge
• Effective instructional approaches for teaching
  students of various racial backgrounds
• Bilingual Education

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School Reform

• Market driven
• Privatized Education
• Choice

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Moral Education

• Different ethnic groups have different views of
  what it means to have good morals or good
  character

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Technology and Curriculum

• Human values and educational purposes over others
• Clear intent
• Not a quick fix
• How best to collect and share information about
  schools

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Politics of Curriculum