Curriculum: The Teacher's Initiative

by John D. McNeil

Focuses on the teacher's role in creating curriculum by putting teacher's in touch with postmodernism ideas and helping them see the implications of these ideas for their own practice. Discusses the purpose, method, and organization of creating curriculum. Focuses on curriculum development from constructivist to social reconstructionist perspectives rather than on transmission models of curriculum making. Teachers and prospective teachers, in curriculum and curriculum development courses for K-12.

228 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998