Curriculum in the Making: Teacher Choice and the Classroom Experience

By Rebecca Killen Hawthorne

Challenging the current assumption in the educational reform movement that simply mandating curriculum top-down will alter classroom practice, the author instead focuses on case studies of four English teachers and the role of teacher values, beliefs, experience, and expertise as a primary determinant for curriculum and how these decisions, in turn, affect what and how students learn. Embedding her thesis and case studies in current research on teacher decision-making and secondary school reform, the author addresses the struggle between personal and professional autonomy and obligations to school administration's and mandated curricula.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807731501
• ISBN13: 9780807731505
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.3"