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Curriculum and Teaching

This guide is for the NU specialization Curriculum and Teaching. It contains resources available in the NU Library.

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Content: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.
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Culturally Appropriate Curriculum/Education by Vanesso Dodo Serik
ISBN: 9781412940504
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia entry presents an overview of culturally appropriate education and its misconceptions.
Curriculum by Jon Nixon; Lesley Aers; Fred Inglis
ISBN: 1412903157
Publication Date: 2008
Book entry provides a brief history of curriculum and the National Curriculum in Britain.
Curriculum-Based Assessment by Lynn S. Fuchs and Douglas Fuchs
ISBN: 9781412950114
Publication Date: 2008
Book chapter introduces best practices in progress monitoring and provides an overview of curriculum-based measurement.
Curriculum and Instruction by J. J. Chambliss (Editor)
ISBN: 1138866520
Publication Date: 2015
Encyclopedia entry describes the difference between curriculum and instruction.
Curriculum Design and Classroom Management by Information Resources Management Association Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781466682467
Publication Date: 2015
Presents cutting-edge research on the development and implementation of various tools used to maintain the learning environment and present information to pupils as effectively as possible.
Curriculum Internationalization and the Future of Education by Semire Dikli (Editor); Brian Etheridge (Editor); Richard Rawls (Editor)
ISBN: 9781522527916
Publication Date: 2018
Examines the steps taken to diversify a number of courses from various disciplines and addresses the challenges with curriculum internationalization.
Curriculum Models by Jenna Bachinski
ISBN: 9781412949712
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia entry describes the evolution of curriculum design models.
Curriculum Models and Design by Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead (Editor); Janice Gidman (Editor); Annette McIntosh (Editor)
ISBN: 1849200106
Publication Date: 2010
Book entry identifies outcome-based and process-based models of curriculum design.
Curriculum Theory by William H. Schubert
ISBN: 9781412906784
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia article presents an overview of curriculum theory, or the network of assumptions that undergirds curriculum proposals, policies, and practices.
Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies by Craig Kridel (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412958837
Publication Date: 2010
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the academic field of curriculum studies for the scholar, student, teacher, and administrator.
Informal Curriculum by Thomas L. Good
ISBN: 9781412950114
Publication Date: 2008
Book chapter discusses the informal school curriculum that permeates the formal academic curriculum taught in schools.
The SAGE Guide to Curriculum in Education by Ming Fang He (Editor); Brian D. Schultz (Editor); William H. Schubert (Editor)
ISBN: 9781452292243
Publication Date: 2015
Integrates, summarizes, and explains foundational knowledge and information about the field of curriculum with brief, simply written overviews.
The Sage Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment by Dominic Wyse (Editor); Louise Hayward (Editor); Jessica Pandya (Editor)
ISBN: 9781446297025
Publication Date: 2016
Focuses on examining how curriculum is treated and developed, and its impact on pedagogy and assessment worldwide.
The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction by F. Michael Connelly; Ming Fang He; JoAnn Phillion
ISBN: 9781412909907
Publication Date: 2007
Aims to advance the study of curriculum and instruction by re-establishing continuity within the field while acknowledging its practical, contextual, and theoretical diversity.