 Curriculum and Aims & Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibilityreviewed by Michael W. Apple & Ralph W. Tyler - 1987  Title: Curriculum and Aims & Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and PossibilityAuthor(s): Decker F. Walker, Jonas F. Soltis Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807736759, Pages: 130, Year: 1997 Search for book at Amazon.com No matter how hard curriculum “technicians” try to keep curriculum concerns as purely instrumental matters, reality keeps rearing its head. The language of efficiency, of standardization, of cost accountability, of bureaucratic rationalization—always promising to become the primary if not the only way we deal with curriculum—seems never to quite succeed in placing a lid on other even more powerful curriculum issues. Somehow, politics and values keep entering into curriculum deliberations, creating difficulties not easily dealt with under the rubrics of management ideologies. The content of the curriculum continues to be a source of social conflict. The pedagogy that accompanies the curriculum and the evaluation procedures that come with it as well are subject to criticism by groups with distinctly different educational and ideological visions. In the real world of education, the simple theories of curriculum workers dressed up as accountants and systems managers seem to be just that—too simple. This should... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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