Chapter 3: Curriculum Alternative Approaches, Ongoing Issues

A reasonable curriculum approach should include:
An understanding of curriculum and the process of curriculum development
A value system that allows you to give a basis for your decisions
An understanding of the basic assumptions about the world, society, and morality

Tyler
4 big questions a curriculum planner must ask, and should be asked and answered in a certain order

Walker's Deliberative Approach
Studying what people actually do in development of curricula, he said that better curricula will come about when those who are planning it understand the complexity of the process.  3 basic phases: platform, deliberation, and design

Eisner's Artistic Approach
Curriculum design needed a variety of new assumptions and methods that will help elucidate the complexity of the field