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 in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.

Contents





　


Acknowledgements


Introduction











Looking Back: A Prologue to Curriculum Studies












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 Meaning of Curriculum in Dewey’s Lab School


Laurel N. Tanner





5. The Public School and the Immigrant Child


Jane Addams





6. Dare the School Build a New Social Order?


George S. Counts









Curriculum At Education’s Center Stage






7. Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction


Ralph W. Tyler





8. Was There Really a Social Efficiency Doctrine? The Uses and Abuses of an Idea in Educational History


Thomas Fallace and Victoria Fantozzi





9. Man: A Course of Study


Jerome S. Bruner





10. Objectives


W. James Popham





11. Education Objectives – Help or Hindrance


Elliot W. Eisner





12. A Naturalistic Model for Curriculum Development


Decker F. Walker





13. Curriculum and Consciousness


Maxine Greene









Reconceptualizing Curriculum Theory






14. The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies


William E. Pinar





15. The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom


Paulo Freire





16. The Paideia Proposal


Mortimer Adler





17. The False Promise of the Paideia: A Criitcal Review of the Paideia Proposal


Nel Noddings





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





19. Black Curriculum Orientations: A Preliminary Inquiry


William H. Watkins





20. How Schools Shortchange Girls: Three Perspectives on Curriculum.


American Association of University Women (AAUW)


How Schools Shortchange Girls: The AAUW Report, American Association of University Women (AAUW)









After a Century of Curriculum Thought: Change and Continuity








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


Angela Valenzuela





22. Standardizing Knowledge in a Multicultural Society


Christine Sleeter and Jamy Stillman





23. High-Stakes Testing and Curriculum Control: A Qualitative Metasynthesis


Wayne Au





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


Elliot W. Eisner





25. Teacher Experiences of Culture in the Curriculum


Elaine Chan





26. The Bulling Curriculum: Gender, Sexualities, and the New Authoritarian Populism in Education.


Dennis Carlson.





27. Complementary Curriculum: The Work of Ecologically Minded Teachers


Christy M. Moroye





28. Too Many People Are Going to College


Charles Murray





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


Thomas Misco





30. "We Are the New Oppressed": Gender, Culture, and the Work of Home Schooling.


Michael W. Apple





31. How Language Limits Our Understanding of Environmental Education


C. A. Bowers





32. The Common Core Standards


Nel Noddings