The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958Psychology Press, 2004 - 330 pages Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks. |
Contents
Curriculum Ferment in the 1890s | 1 |
The Curriculum versus the Child | 26 |
The Curriculum of the Dewey School | 51 |
Scientific CurriculumMaking and the Rise of Social Efficiency as an Educational Ideal | 76 |
Some Subject Realignment and the Triumph of Vocationalism | 105 |
From HomeProject to Experience Curriculum | 130 |
The Great Depression and the Heyday of Social Meliorism | 151 |
The Hybridization of the Curriculum | 175 |
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