TY - BOOK AU - Doll, Ronald C. TI - Curriculum improvement: decision making and process SN - 9780205131716 AV - LB 2806.15 .D65 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - Boston, Massachusetts PB - Allyn and Bacon Inc. KW - CURRICULUM CHANGE N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. Decision making in curriculum improvement -- 1. Historical and philosophical foundations of curriculum decision making -- 2. Psychological bases for curriculum decisions -- 3. Social and cultural forces affecting curriculum decisions -- 4. Subject matter: its role in decision making -- 5. Making decisions about the design of the curriculum -- 6. Evaluation of curriculum programs and projects -- Part 2. Process in curriculum improvement -- 7. The general process of curriculum change and improvement -- 8. The planning process -- 9. Participants and their roles in curriculum improvement -- 10. The massive problem of communication -- 11. Curriculum leadership; its nature and strategies N2 - Since 1964, Curriculum Improvement: Decision Making and Process has been both a standard text and a practitioner's handbook on the essential elements of curriculum planning. So much has happened in the curriculum field, particularly during the last three decades, that continuing revision of the book has been necessary. Because the fundamental issues, problems, and concerns in curriculum planning have remained constant, however, the chapter themes have, in general, been preserved ER -