Curriculum science is a field with its own rules and concepts, aimed at developing the learner within an integrated plan to provide educational experiences suitable for learners, societal culture, and future visions, both near and far. The school curriculum bears the greatest burden in achieving the goals of renaissance, progress, and comprehensive development for individuals and societies.

Curriculum design is its model or organizational structure. It is a term that refers to the form and nature of the relationship between the different elements of the curriculum. It is the way these elements are organized to facilitate the teaching and learning process. It also visualizes the relationships between learners, teachers, educational materials, content, and time on one hand, and learning outcomes on the other. It is the guide that describes all the factors that direct teaching towards specific outcomes; therefore, the concept of curriculum design is of great importance in curriculum science.

This book presents some essential concepts in the field of curricula and how to design them. It also discusses some contemporary issues related to curriculum science that occupy the minds of educators today, seeking to address these concepts and issues with much sincerity and clarity. The chapters have been arranged in a logical, coherent, and continuous line of thought.

The book begins by addressing the culture of standard-based levels, as these levels are considered a contemporary educational reform movement linked to achieving comprehensive quality in the educational process. It covers the concept of educational standards, the importance of defining them, the standard levels for the curriculum, and how to measure comprehensive quality in the modern school curriculum. It also provides a scientific overview of the curriculum in terms of its concept and the evolution of this concept, including the problems it entailed. The fundamental determinants on which the design and construction of the school curriculum are based are then presented, represented by a triangle with the learner on one side, society on the second, and knowledge determinants on the third. For each of these determinants, we have set standards that the student can benefit from in curriculum design.

Subsequently, we have made room for the elements of the curriculum, which proceed in an integrated system. An overview of the school curriculum objectives is presented, with a comprehensive review of the classification of educational objectives and their levels. A clear theorization of school curriculum content design is also presented in terms of its nature, contemporary issues related to it, criteria for its selection, and how to correct and organize it.

The book also presents strategies that lead to quality in education in an era of dynamism and complexity in all aspects of life and even in the behavior of learners. There was a need for diversity and dynamic movement in strategies that work to form a learner who can draw from the horizons of contemporary and future education with its cognitive and technological innovations.

The discussion also touches on evaluation as one of the main components of the curriculum, highlighting its importance for the educational field in general and the school curriculum in particular. The book then moves on to address curriculum design in a theoretical presentation of its concept, its significations, an overview of curriculum theories, curriculum engineering, and a presentation of some models for this engineering.

The book concludes by addressing curriculum planning and its organizations that have been witnessed in the journey of school curricula, presenting the traditional curriculum 'the separate subject curriculum' and its development. The study units were the legitimate and modified outcome of these curricula, followed by the activity curriculum, then the core curriculum, and finally the technological curriculum.

• Number of Pages: 464
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2
• Print Color: Black
• Size (cm): 17x24
• Weight (kg): 0.850
• Barcode: 9789957067007