Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction

What educational purposes should the school seek to attain, and what educational experiences can be provided that are likely to achieve these purposes? Rather than literally answering these questions of curriculum and instruction, Tyler develops a rationale for studying them, and suggests procedures for formulating answers and evaluating programs of study. Quite simply, his book outlines one way of viewing an instructional program as a functioning instrument of education.

The four sections of the book deal with ways of formulating, organizing, and evaluating the educational objectives that have been chosen for the curriculum. Tyler emphasizes the fact that curriculum planning is a continuous cyclical process, involving constand replanning, redevelopment, and reappraisal. Substitution of such an integrated view of an instructional program for hit-or-miss judgment as the basis for curriculum development cannot but result in an increasingly effective curriculum.

• Experience And Education
• The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum
• The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units
• The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958
• Developing the Curriculum (8th Edition) (Allyn & Bacon Educational Leadership)
• The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition
• Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered
• Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
• Leveraging Chaos: The Mysteries of Leadership and Policy Revealed