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Lawrence Stenhouse  

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  • The conceptualization of “curriculum as a means to an end” underlying current educational practices including the use of standards and authentic assessment can be traced to the work and theorizing of Lawrence Stenhouse (19261982). Stenhouse, a British educational theorist, framed curriculum as hypothesis and called on teachers to use an inquiry approach to develop a rigorous curriculum that promoted higher-order thinking skills and honored and attended to cultural diversity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Stenhouse, Lawrence]

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