Grounded in historical essays, this volume provides context for the growing field of curriculum studies, reflecting on dominant trends in the field and sampling the best of current scholarship
Scientific method in curriculum-making / Franklin Bobbitt A critical consideration of the new pedagogy in its relation to modern science / Maria Montessori My pedagogic creed / John Dewey The meaning of curriculum in Dewey's laboratory (1896-1904) / Laurel N. Tanner The public school and the immigrant child / Jane Addams Dare the school build a new social order? / George S. Counts Basic principles of curriculum and instruction / Ralph W. Tyler Was there really a social efficiency doctrine? the uses and abuses of a idea in educational history / Thomas Fallace and Victoria Fantozzi Man: a course study / Jerome S. Bruner Objectives / W. James Popham Educational objectives: help or hindrance? / Elliot W. Eisner A naturalistic model for curriculum development / Decker F. Walker Curriculum and consciousness / Maxine Greene The reconceptualization of curriculum studies / William F. Pinar The adult literary process as cultural action for freedom / Paulo Freire The Paideia proposal / Mortimer J. Adler The false promise of the Paideia: a critical review of The Paideia proposal / Nel Noddings Implementation as mutual adaptation: change in classroom organization / Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin Black curriculum orientations: a preliminary inquiry / William H. Watkins How schools shortchange girls: three perspectives on curriculum / American Association of University Women (AAUW) Subtractive schooling, caring relations, and social capital in the schooling of U.S.-Mexican youth / Angela Valenzuela Standardizing knowledge in a multicultural society / Christine Sleeter and Jamy Stillman High-stakes testing and curriculum control: a qualitative metasynthesis / Wayne Au What does it mean to say a school is doing well? / Elliot W. Eisner Teacher experiences of culture in the curriculum / Elaine Chan The bully curriculum: gender, sexualities, and the new authoritarian populism in education / Dennis Carlson Complementary curriculum: the work of ecologically minded teachers / Christy M. Moroye Too many people are going to college / Charles Murray Moving beyond fidelity expectations: rethinking curriculum reform for controversial topics in post-communist settings / Thomas Misco "We are the new oppressed": gender, culture, and the work of home schooling / Michael W. Apple How language limits our understanding of environmental education / Chet Bowers The common core standards / Nel Noddings
