Curriculum evaluation for lifelong education : developing criteria and procedures for the evaluation of school curricula in the perspective of lifelong education : a multinational study

Edited By Rodney Skager And R. H. Dave, With Contributions By K. G. Robinson. Includes Bibliographies And Index. Content: Front Matter, Page iii Copyright, Page iv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, Page v FOREWORD, Pages ix-x, M. Dino Carelli CHAPTER 1 - LIFELONG EDUCATION AND EVALUATION OF SCHOOL CURRICULA, Pages 1-13 CHAPTER 2 - PLANS AND PROCEDURES OF THE STUDY, Pages 14-22 CHAPTER 3 - SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND ITS EVALUATION, Pages 23-31 CHAPTER 4 - DEVELOPMENT OF THE EVALUATIVE CRITERIA, Pages 32-62 CHAPTER 5 - APPLICATIONS OF THE EVALUATIVE CRITERIA TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE NATIONAL CURRICULA, Pages 63-103 CHAPTER 6 - STEPS TOWARD THE PREPARATION OF PLANS FOR IMPROVING NATIONAL CURRICULA, Pages 104-108 CHAPTER 7 - CONCLUSION, Pages 109-112 APPENDIX 1 - NATIONAL RESEARCH TEAMS AND REPORTS, Pages 115-116 APPENDIX 2 - A LIST OF CONCEPT CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFELONG EDUCATION, Pages 117-118 APPENDIX 3 - CURRICULUM COMPONENTS FOR THE EVALUATION OF SCHOOL CURRICULA IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF LIFELONG EDUCATION, Pages 119-121 APPENDIX 4 - EVALUATIVE CRITERIA FOR CURRICULUM COMPONENTS, Pages 122-126 APPENDIX 5 - FORM FOR COMBINING CURRICULUM COMPONENTS AND EVALUATIVE CRITERIA, Page 127 APPENDIX 6 - COMBINED LIST OF CRITERIA AND ILLUSTRATIVE SPECIFICATIONS, Pages 128-136 INDEX, Pages 137-140 Curriculum Evaluation for Lifelong Education describes the procedures, results, and implications of a two-year effort by research teams from Japan, Romania, and Sweden to develop and utilize a set of criteria for evaluating school curricula. The research summarized in this book is a step toward the concretization of the principles of lifelong education, which seeks to isolate the salient characteristics of a curriculum that incorporates the principles of lifelong education and to describe several procedures for applying the resulting criteria to written and operational curricula. This compilation draws heavily on the work of the cooperating teams who, after an initial joint planning conference, developed their own versions of the lifelong education criteria and in various ways applied those criteria to their own national curricula. This book is a good reference for school and institute administrators aiming to acquire knowledge on the principles of lifelong education.