Directions for the Future

• Curriculum Inquiry

• Conceptualizing the Task

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Walkers Five Questions (p 190)

• What are the major features of a given curriculum

• What are the personal and social consequences that a given curriculum elicits?

• What accounts for the stability and change in curriculum features?

• What accounts for peoples’ judgments of the merit or worth of various curriculum features?

• What sorts of curriculum features should be p[at of a curriculum designed for a particular purpose?

The task of theorizers of curriculum is to reflect about the many dimensions of the field.