Turning Points in Curriculum
A Contemporary American Memoir
Published on 9. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-02-376451-6 (ISBN)
Description
For graduate courses in Curriculum Development, Curriculum History, or Curriculum Planning.
This comprehensive text is designed to engage readers in a story of curriculum and to invite them to identify with and participate in this important book. This text illustrates how changes in American society and culture correlate with the American field 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. The text is appropriate as a supplemental text for the graduate level curriculum development course.
This comprehensive text is designed to engage readers in a story of curriculum and to invite them to identify with and participate in this important book. This text illustrates how changes in American society and culture correlate with the American field 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. The text is appropriate as a supplemental text for the graduate level curriculum development course.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-02-376451-6 (9780023764516)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
I. CONTEXTUAL PANORAMA FOR CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM WORK: 1897-1946.
1. Prelude to Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Development.
II. THE RISE AND FALL OF CURRICULUM SPECIALISTS: 1947-1960.
2. Curriculum Development at its Zenith.
3. Transfer by Eminent Domain.
III. RE-ESTABLISHING AGENCY AND AGENDAS: 1961-1969.
4. Muted Heretics Endure, 1961-1964.
5. Transcending a Muddled Juncture, 1965-1969.
IV. RE-SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM FIELD: 1970-1983.
6. The Renaissance Blossoms.
7. From Chorus to Cacophony.
V. THE UNCERTAINTIES OF CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM WORK: 1984 to Lately.
8. Implosion and Consolidation.
9. Imagining the Post-Millennial Curriculum Field.
Afterword: The Age of Pluralism by Wilma Longstreet.
Bibliography.
Index.
1. Prelude to Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Development.
II. THE RISE AND FALL OF CURRICULUM SPECIALISTS: 1947-1960.
2. Curriculum Development at its Zenith.
3. Transfer by Eminent Domain.
III. RE-ESTABLISHING AGENCY AND AGENDAS: 1961-1969.
4. Muted Heretics Endure, 1961-1964.
5. Transcending a Muddled Juncture, 1965-1969.
IV. RE-SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM FIELD: 1970-1983.
6. The Renaissance Blossoms.
7. From Chorus to Cacophony.
V. THE UNCERTAINTIES OF CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM WORK: 1984 to Lately.
8. Implosion and Consolidation.
9. Imagining the Post-Millennial Curriculum Field.
Afterword: The Age of Pluralism by Wilma Longstreet.
Bibliography.
Index.