The Curriculum: Problems, Politics, and Possibilities

by Beyer, Landon E.; Apple, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780791438107
• ISBN10: 0791438104
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Values and Politics in the Curriculum	p. 3
Curriculum: Its Past and Present
The Effort to Reconstruct the Modern American Curriculum	p. 21
Contestation and Curriculum: The Efforts of American Socialists, 1900-1920	p. 34
What Goes on in Classrooms? Is This the Way We Want It?	p. 58
Curriculum and Planning
Models of Curriculum Planning	p. 79
Multicultural Curricula: "Whose Knowledge?" and Beyond	p. 101
What We've Learned from "Living in the Future"	p. 117
Curriculum and Knowledge Selection
Curriculum Platforms and Moral Stories	p. 137
The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook	p. 157
Democracy and the Curriculum	p. 177
Curriculum and the Work of Teachers
Woard a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	p. 201
Teaching, Gender, and Curriculum	p. 230
Schooling for Democracy: What Kind?	p. 245
Curriculum and Technology
The Regime of Technology in Education	p. 267
A Critical Analysis of Three Approaches to the Use of Computers in Education	p. 284
Teaching and Technology: The Hidden Effects of Computers on Teachers and Students	p. 314
Curriculum and Evaluation
The Human Problems and Possibilities of Curriculum Evaluation	p. 339
Developing Curriculum through School Self-Evaluation	p. 358
Democratic Evaluation: Aesthetic, Ethical Stories in Schools	p. 380
Contributors	p. 397
Index	p. 405
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