Curriculum and Imagination

<p><em>Curriculum and Imagination</em> describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing implementing and evaluating curriculum suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure. </p><p>This comprehensive and authoritative book:</p><ul> <li>offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectives</li> <li>shows that a curriculum can be best planned and developed at school level by teachers adopting an action research role</li> <li>complements the spirit and reality of much of the teaching profession today embracing the fact that there is a degree of intuition and critical judgement in the work of educators</li> <li>presents empirical evidence on teachers’ human values. </li> </ul><p><em>Curriculum and Imagination</em> provides a rational and logical alternative for all educators who plan curriculum but do not wish to be held captive by a mechanistic ‘ends-means’ notion of educational planning. Anyone studying or teaching curriculum studies or involved in education or educational planning will find this important new book fascinating reading. </p>