The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958
By: Herbert M. Kliebard.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Education -- United States -- Curricula -- History -- 20th century; Curriculum planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Education -- United States -- Curricula -- History -- 19th century; Curriculum planning -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Curriculum ferment in the 1890s; title: The curriculum versus the child; title: The curriculum of the Dewey School; title: Scientific curriculum-making and the rise of social efficiency as an educational ideal; title: Some subject realignment and the triumph of vocationalism; title: From home-project to experience curriculum; title: The Great Depression and the heyday of social meliorism; title: The hybridization of the curriculum; title: The mounting challenge to the subject curriculum; title: The state of school subjects at midcentury; title: Life adjustment education and the end of an era.