Curriculum Development Syllabus

Why a Curriculum Development Syllabus Bibliography?

I’ve decided to aggregate the most interesting cites from curriculum development syllabuses to form a curriculum development bibligragphy of sorts:

Vilma Mesa’s University of Michigan Curriculum Development Syllabus:

Jackson, Philip W. (1992). Handbook of research on curriculum. New York: Macmillan; (Note: $172 used via Amazon)

Pinar, William; Reynolds, William; Slattery, Patrick; & Taubman, Peter. (2000). Understanding Curriculum. Peter Lang: New York. [the Amazon link is to the 1995 version--sorry]

Eisner, Elliot. (2002). The educational imagination. (3rd Ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merril/Prentice Hall.

Bloom’s taxonomy: A forty-year retrospective, Ninety-third yearbook
of the National Society for the Study of Education (pp. 181-202). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

From the capitol to the classroom: Standards-based reform in the States. One-hundredth yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (pp. 193-216) and (pp. 217-241). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McMurry, C. A. (1914). Three pairs of dual principles in education, Conflicting principles in teaching and how to adjust them (pp. 261-281). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

McMurry, C. A. (1923). Typical life projects and illustrations, How to organize the curriculum (pp. 120-184). New York: Macmillan.

Yale Report. (1829). Original papers in relation to a course of liberal education. American Journal of Sciences and Arts, 15, 297-340.

National-Education-Association. (1918). Cardinal principles of secondary education. Bulletin # 35. Washington: Department of Interior, Bureau of Education.

Related Issues to Curriculum Development
Levin, J. & Nolan, J.F. (2003). What Every Teacher Should Know About
Classroom Management. Boston, MA: Pearson Ed. (UNC Syllabus)

Curriculum Periodicals (Courtesy of Dr. William Wraga at the University of Georgia School of Education)

Curriculum Inquiry
Educational Researcher
Journal of Curriculum Studies
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
Journal of Curriculum and Supervision

One interesting resources is Learn Web at Harvard University:
Learn Web asks you to think of a skill you have learned and what is common about the way in which you learned the skill or understanding?

Do you see any patterns?

* observing
* not giving up
* having a coach
* practicing
* getting help
* breaking a task into parts
* talking aloud
* feeling success
* trial and error
* asking questions
* having passion
* persevering
* observing and evaluating
* talking to experts
* reading
* failing
* comparing schema or general cases
* using intuition
* thinking about something
* going through cycles of doing/finding information/reflecting

The Learn Web helps teachers and learners be introspective and conscious about the learning process.