Analyzing The Curriculum

by George J. Posner

As a primary text, Analyzing the Curriculum provides the backbone for a basic curriculum course at either the senior or graduate level. The book shows how the parts of a curriculum fit together and how to identify assumptions underlying curricula. In doing so, students develop the ability to determine why a curriculum proves better for some students than for others; what approaches to teaching are compatible with a particular curriculum; what difficulties a curriculum is likely to encounter during implementation; and what kinds of changes in the curriculum parents, students, and administrators are likely to demand. These are valuable skills for evaluating, selecting and adapting existing programs to suit particular situations.

Genres: Academic

320 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

Reviews

[Dana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the most exciting reading, but some good insights into curriculum and how best to approach it.

[Mark Schlatter · Rating 3 out of 5]

One the one hand, it's a fairly engaging read and a very good way to explore the different perspectives and dichotomies in curriculum analysis, evaluation, and implementation. But, it is inconsistent with its examples, is sometimes maddeningly vague, and has a surprising number of typos for a 3rd edition. Also, quite slanted against behaviorism (not that I have a large problem with that).

[Erin McDonnell-Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was terrible. The class I had to read it for did not utilize the text in any way. Furthermore, the research is outdated and at this point (2013), almost irrelevant. I also take a lot of issue with Posner's lack of definition of certain term.

[Faldi]

so cool

[Ziah Jad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Analyzing the Curriculum