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Chapter 3 Summary

In chapter 3 Queen discusses how educational philpohilsy influence that help form the six educaitional models. These six models are: Perennialist, Essentialists, Progressivitst, Existentialists, Recontrustionists, and Futurist.
The first two models that were discussed in this chapter is the perennialists and Essentialists. These two models view education as being concentrated on cultural inheritance over time. The teaching focus on ideas that are ongoing. The perennalists believe that’s education is constant like human nature. This model also ensures students to understand great ideas of Western communities.
The Essentialist believe that there is a systematic ways of knowledge that needs to be taught to students in a certain way. Essentialist differs from perennalists because they accept the idea of change in curriculums. In this model students are prepared to become better members in society by teaching students how to read, write,and speak clearly. Essentialist. believe that change is necessary. This means that the teach should help the students in their

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Summary of Chapter 5& 6 In chapter 5 Queen discusses the process of creating a curriculum, the different meanings of a curriculum, patterns of curriculum organization, balancing subject content and process, and lastly cautions and warnings. In chapter 6 Queen describes content that is taught in early grades K-2 grades.
In the book Queen defines a curriculum as basic directions for what is to be taught in schools. A curriculum is a plan or guide for the teacher to follow throughout the year to keep organizations with the lessons. Queen also lists different interpretations of a curriculum to give the reader a variety of definition of a curriculum.Tw of the interpations used in the book was “curriculum is a program