REVIEW OF THE BOOK: KEYS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRICULUM. CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS

Authors

  • Javier Insunza Mora Universidad Diego Portales

Abstract

On Thursday, April 28th, in the Recabarren room of the Casa del Maestro, the Interuniversity Research Group on Curriculum Policies and Innovation presented its book “Keys for Curriculum Development. Critical analysis and recommendations for teachers and schools”. The text contains seven chapters authored by Mirtha Abraham, María Virginia Ávila, Miguel Caro, Sonia Lavín, Abraham Magendzo, Alex Mondaca, Andrea Rodríguez, Verónica Salgado and Luis Osandón, who serves as the book's editor. The text is prefaced by Dr. Daniel Johnson-Mardones. The book seeks to show the contemporary debate. In this sense, the text proposes a reading perspective of the time, that is, it seeks to give an account of a developing process that is experiencing a state of crisis -which may be terminal-, and, therefore, places the need for the beginning of another-new-forms(s) of making curriculum. In this sense, the text denounces and deepens the reading of the crisis and generates proposals for reading and action where the curriculum can take new forms.

Keywords:

Education, curriculum, curricular construction, curricular development.