Teaching Students How to Plan: The Dominant Model and Alternatives

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Rationalistic, technical curriculum making has become the dominant planning model in American education. The basic tenets of technical planning are proferred by May and the problems with rationalis tic processes are highlighted. The author asserts that adopting in teacher education "what is done" in school-based cur riculum design superimposes a technical method, even though alternative, legiti mate, and creative open-ended methods exist for teacher planning. Teacher educa tors should examine those alternatives and explore with prospective teachers the problems associated with Tyler's linear ap proach to planning.