The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

by Kliebard,Herbert M.

• ISBN13: 9780415948906
• ISBN10: 0415948908
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Published in 1987, the first edition ofThe Struggle for the American Curriculumwas 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.

Author Biography

Herbert M. Kliebard is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Preface to the First Edition	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxi
Curriculum Ferment in the 1890s	1	(25)
The Curriculum versus the Child	26	(25)
The Curriculum of the Dewey School	51	(25)
Scientific Curriculum-Making and the Rise of Social Efficiency as an Educational Ideal	76	(29)
Some Subject Realignment and the Triumph of Vocationalism	105	(25)
From Home-Project to Experience Curriculum	130	(21)
The Great Depression and the Heyday of Social Meliorism	151	(24)
The Hybridization of the Curriculum	175	(25)
The Mounting Challenge to the Subject Curriculum	200	(22)
The State of School Subjects at Midcentury	222	(28)
Life Adjustment Education and the End of an Era	250	(21)
Afterword	271	(22)
References	293	(24)
Index	317