1. How does the author distinguish between a “bureaucratic system” and a “free-market system”? How are these two types of systems both similar and different?
2. List two strengths and two weaknesses of the Systematic curriculum. Select one of the strengths or weaknesses you believe is the most persuasive, explain why, and provide at least one reason from school practice to support your choice.
3. Suggest two ways that learners (students) might be able to contribute to the process of curriculum development. For each way suggested, give a reason why it would or would not work in current school practice.
4. Which of the five common places that the author lists and uses in this text – teachers, learners, subject matter, context, and curriculum making – is considered most important to existentialists and why?