Turning Points in Curriculum

by Marshall, J. Dan; Sears, James T.; Schubert, William H.

ISBN13:
9780023764516
ISBN10:
0023764511
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2000-01-01
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

This comprehensive book is designed to engage readers in a story of curriculum and to invite them too identify with and participate in this important book. It illustrates how changes in American society and culture correlate with the American filed of curriculum studies and curriculum work. It contains five parts that focus on the United States; the first offers a backdrop for parts II-V, which present curriculum's journey through the last half of the 20th century. For educators and school administrators, and those interested in curriculum development.

Introduction

xix

PART I Contextual Panorama for Contemporary Curriculum Work (1897--1946)

(14)

Prelude to Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Development

(13)

PART II The Rise and Fall of Curriculum Specialists (1947--1960)

(40)

Curriculum Development at Ist Zenith

(18)

Transfer by Eminent Domain

(21)

PART III Reestablishing Agency and Agendas (1961--1969)

(50)

Muted Heretics Endure (1961--1964)

(21)

Transcending a Muddled Juncture (1965--1969)

(28)

PART IV (Re)Shaping the Contemporary Curriculum Field (1970--1983)

105

(62)

The Renaissance Blossoms

106

(35)

From Chorus to Cacophony

141

(26)

PART V The Uncertainties of Contemporary Curriculum Work (1984 to Lately)

167

(77)

Implosion and Consolidation

168

(43)

Imagining the Postmillennial Curriculum Field

211

(33)

Afterword: The Age of Pluralism

244

(5)

Wilma Longstreet

Bibliography

249

(30)

Index

279

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