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Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
What educational purposes should the school seek to attain, and what educational experiences can be provided that are likely to achieve these purposes? Rather than literally answering these questions of curriculum and instruction, Tyler develops a rationale for studying them, and suggests procedures for formulating answers and evaluating programs of study. Quite simply, hi...more
Paperback, 134 pages
Published
July 15th 1969
by University of Chicago Press
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Reading Basic Principles was a bit like taking in a black-and-white movie. The camera work is steady; the actors are well defined; the plot is simple, if not just a bit familiar… Perhaps some of my familiarity with this script is due to the fact that this rationale for curriculum and instruction is very much the one imposed upon me as a teacher the past four years, right down to the terminology (“sequence,” “alignment,” etc.). This is not to say that I found Tyler’s vision of curriculum and inst...more
I read this for Dr. White's curriculum class at Rowan University. This would have been circa 1999. I do not recall much from it or the class, although I have positive memories of Dr. White himself.
Tyler is the godfather of Curriculum, and this "paper" is often times hard to read. However, it really does describe the basics of curriclum design and really made me think long and hard about what we are doing in education today with the whole standards, testing, NCLB thing.
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