Abstract

Section I: Essays in Curriculum History 1. The Decline of Humanistic Studies in the American School Curriculum. 2. The Liberal Arts Curriculum and Its Enemies: The Effort to Redefine General Education. 3. Keeping Out of Nature's Way: The Rise and Fall of Child-Study as the Basis for Curriculum, 1880-1905. 4. Dewey and the Herbartians: The Genesis of a Theory of Curriculum. 5. The Rise of Scientific Curriculum-Making and Its Aftermath. 6. Success and Failure in Educational Reform: Are There Historical `Lessons'? Section II: Essays in Curriculum Theory 7. Bureaucracy and Curriculum Theory. 8. What Is the Question in Teacher Education? 9. The Tyler Rationale. 10. Curriculum Theory: Give Me a `For Instance'. 11. Vocational Education as Symbolic Action: Connecting Schooling with the Workplace. 12. Curriculum Theory as Metaphor.

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