In this book Tero Autio traces not only the key philosophical currents that structure traditional Anglo-American instrumental curriculum theory and Didaktik theories of curriculum which are lesser-known in the U.S., but also the divide between them and, implicitly, the opportunities for traversing this divide. Using careful historical and theoretic
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Preface. Introduction. Truth As Utility: Reconsidering the Rise of Scientific Method as a Pragmatic Precursor for Modernist Curriculum Thinking. From Theology and Metaphysics to the Culture of Method: The Cartesian Revolution of Epistemology and Curriculum. The Puritan-Protestant Disenchantment of Spirituality: The Rationalization of Religion, Inquiring Mind, and Education. Curricular Predicaments of John Locke's Liberalism: Pleasure and Reason; Psychology and Politics. Curriculum and the Politics of Psychology: Conformity of Wills and Predictability of Behavior. Epilogue: Toward a Curriculum Discourse Sui Generis.