Each chapter of this book is devoted to a separate concept, which is analyzed in terms of its major features. Follow-up questions at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge the reader to reflect further on the specific issues raised.

Colin J. Marsh

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Curriculum frameworks; school audits, situational analysis and needs assessment; aims, goals and objectives; selection of method; profiles, records of achievement and portfolios; using textbooks; curriculum and integration; technology and a school subject; Tyler's planning model; Walker's deliberative approach to planning; centrally-based curriculum development; decentralized and school-based curriculum development; curriculum implementation; assessment, grading and testing; innovation and planned change; leadership and the school principal; self-managing schools; performance indidcators and effective schools; school evaluations/reviews; curriculum history; school subjects; curriculum theorizing and the reconceptualists; sociology of knowledge and the curriculum; feminist pedagogy; postmodernism and the curriculum.