TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ewing,Robyn
TI  - Curriculum and assessment: a narrative approach 
SN  - 0195520130
U1  - 375.000994 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - South Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Education
KW  - Curricula
KW  - Australia
KW  - Curriculum-based assessment
N1  - Previous edition: 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Towards Some Definitions of Curriculum and Assessment --; What is narrative? --; Why a narrative approach? --; Practical decisions: A teacher’s dilemma -- --; 2; Conflicting Ideologies: Objectives or Outcomes? Different ways of making sense --; The importance of process --; The outcomes-based education storyline -- --; 3; Implementing the Curriculum: A Question of Quality --; Process not product --; Quality teaching and learning storylines -- --; 4; Evaluation and Assessment Storylines --; Setting the scene --; Understanding the terms --; Towards meaningful assessment: Rich tasks and developing metacognitive skills -- --; 5; Inequity of Educational Opportunity: A Never-ending Story --; Longstanding issues Poverty in Australia --; Completing education and finding work --; School choice? --; Addressing inequality of opportunity --; A new kind of curriculum --; Quality teaching and learning practices --; Assessment and reporting practices --; Increasing social capital through schools -- --; 6; Shifting Gender Storylines --; Some caveats --; Gender equality --; Shifting storylines --; Too much success for girls? --; Boys ‘in crisis’ --; Current brain research --; The current storyline -- --; 7; The National Curriculum Storyline --; A recurring storyline --; Setting the scene: Australia as a group of states and territories or a nation? --; National Curriculum ‘vignettes’ --; The Australian National Curriculum storyline --; The current storyline -- --; 8; Stories of Reporting Student Curriculum Outcomes to Parents and the Community Reporting student curriculum outcomes to parents Public reporting of school and student achievement: The good or the bad news? -- --; 9; Stories of Curriculum Reform --; The nature of change and reform --; Setting the scene -- --; 10; Curriculum and Assessment Futures --; Curriculum futures: No easy answers --; The role of ICT and a future curriculum --; Future scenarios --; What we would like: Our wish list --; Some integrated curriculum examples -- --; 11; The Reflection Storyline: Bringing the Stories Together --; Why reflection? --; So what is reflection? --; Storylines of reflective practice --; John Dewey and reflection --; Schon: Different times for reflection --; Van Manen: Different levels of reflection --; Why reflect? --; Strategies for reflective practice in curriculum -- --; Conclusion -- --; Appendix: Sample Programs
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