The Curriculum Studies Reader

David J. Flinders is Professor of Curriculum Studies in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Stephen J. Thornton is Professor and Chair of the Department of Secondary Education at the University of South Florida, USA.

Preface


Introduction


I. Looking Back: A Prologue to Curriculum Studies


1. Scientific Method in Curriculum-Making
Franklin Bobbitt


2. A critical Consideration of the New Pedagogy in its Relation to Modern Science
Maria Montessori

3. My Pedagogic Creed
John Dewey


4. The Public School and the Immigrant Child
Jane Addams


5. Dare the School Build a New Social Order
George S. Counts


II. Curriculum At Education’s Center Stage


6. Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
Ralph W. Tyler


7. The Rise of Scientific Curriculum-Making and Its Aftermath
Herbert M. Kliebard


8. Man: A Course of Study
Jerome S. Bruner


9. Objectives
W. James Popham


10. Education Objectives – Help or Hindrance
Elliot W. Eisner


11. The Daily Grind
Phillip W. Jackson


12. Curriculum and Consciousness
Maxine Greene


III. Reconceptualizing Curriculum Theory


13. The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies
William E. Pinar


14. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire


15. Controlling the Work of Teachers
Michael W. Apple


16. The Paideia Proposal
Mortimer Adler


17. The False Promise of the Paideia: A Cricitcal Review of the Paideia Proposal
Nel Noddings


18. Implementation as Mutual Adaptation: Change in Classroom Organization Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin



IV. After a Century of Curriculum Thought: Change and Continuity


19. The Four R’s – An Alternative to the Tyler Rational
William R. Doll Jr.


20. Centripetal Thinking in Curriculum Studies
Peter Hlebowitsh


21. High-Stakes Testing and Curriculum Control: A Qualitative Metasynthesis
Wayne Au

22. Standardizing Knowledge in a Multicultural Society
Christine Sleeter and Jamy Stillman


23. Outside the Core: Accountability in Tested and Untested Subjects
Leslie Siskin

24. What Does it Mean to Say a School is Doing Well?
Elliot W. Eisner


25. Subtractive Schooling, Caring Relations, and Social Capital in the Schooling of U.S. Mexican Youth
Angela Valenzuela

26. Teacher Experiences of Culture in the Curriculum
Elaine Chan


27. Interrupting Heteronormativity: Toward a Queer Curriculum Theory
Dennis Sumara and Brent Davis


28. Silence on Gays and Lesbians in Social Studies Curriculum
Stephen J. Thornton


29. Gender Perspectives on Educating for Global Citizenship
Peggy McIntosh.


30. Moving Beyond Fidelity Expectations: Rethinking Curriculum Reform for Controversial Topics in Post-Communist Setting
Thomas Misco


31. Complementary Curriculum: The Work of Ecologically Minded Teachers
Christy M. Moroye


32. Curriculum for the 21st Century
Nel Noddings