New Perspectives on Curriculum, Learning and Assessment

✍ Scribed by David Scott (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Curriculum, Learning and Assessment....Pages 1-9
Curriculum Frameworks....Pages 11-33
Theories of Learning....Pages 35-49
Knowledge and the Curriculum....Pages 51-60
Learning Environments and Transitions....Pages 61-79
Accountability....Pages 81-89
Globalisation Mechanisms....Pages 91-110
International Comparisons....Pages 111-141
A New Model of Curriculum....Pages 143-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-210

✦ Subjects

Curriculum Studies; Learning & Instruction; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation