ED295928 SP030304
Title: Teachers
as Curriculum Planners. Narratives of Experience.
Author(s): Connelly, F. Michael; Clandinin, D. Jean
Pages: 231
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-8077-2906-X
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Ave., New York,
NY 10027 ($15.95, paperback, ISBN-0-8077-2906-X; $26.95, cloth,
ISBN-0-8077-2907-8).
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1988
Target Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
The intent
of this book is to strengthen the professional role teachers play
in curriculum planning and development, a process central to teacher
activity and responsibility. Contextual narratives, document analysis,
the use of metaphor, personal rules, principles, beliefs, images,
and philosophy are all described for use in hands-on exercises.
The book contains case studies and useful school-based examples
of how individual teachers at all levels of the curriculum draw
on their own experience for planning curriculum and instruction.
The concept of narrative is underlined throughout as a key to discovering
how teachers and students make meaning in their lives. (JD)
Descriptors: *Course Objectives; *Curriculum Development; Elementary
Secondary Education; Individual Development; Instructional Materials;
Lesson Plans; Needs Assessment; Personal Narratives; Teacher Effectiveness;
*Teacher Participation; Teacher Persistence; *Teaching Experience
