LibGuides: CT-7200: Week 1 Resources

Week 1 Resources

Ensuring High-Quality Curriculum by Angela Di Michele Lalor
ISBN: 9781416622819

Publication Date: 2016-11-10

Lalor, A. D. M. (2017). Ensuring high-quality curriculum: How to design, revise, or adopt curriculum aligned to student success. ASCD.
Read the Introduction: The “Big Picture” of Curriculum (pp. 1-8). The author describes different types of curriculum, and major components of a formal curriculum.

Societal Curriculum
Tahira Shah, S., & Khurshid, F. (2017). Societal curriculum: Effects of television on social values system in Pakistani society. Bulletin of Education and Research, 39(1), 75–89.
This interesting study investigates the ways television and the media, a powerful facet of societal curriculum, influences Pakistani students.
Starting Where You Are, Revisiting What You Know
Brownell, C. J. (2017). Starting where you are, revisiting what you know: A letter to a first-year teacher addressing the hidden curriculum. Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, 14(3), 205-219.
Written as a letter to a first-year teacher, this poignant article describes the hidden curriculum based on lived experience teaching in two school districts located in an urban southern part of the United States.
The Societal Curriculum and the School Curriculum
Cortes, C. E. (1979). The societal curriculum and the school curriculum: Allies or antagonists? Educational Leadership, 36(7), 475-479.
This article discusses the societal curriculum and its impact on culture.