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The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958 / Herbert M. Kliebard.

By: Publication details: New York, NY : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415948908 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415948916 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.11/3/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1570 .K585 2004
Contents:
Curriculum ferment in the 1890s -- The curriculum versus the child -- The curriculum of the Dewey School -- Scientific curriculum-making and the rise of social efficiency as an educational ideal -- Some subject realignment and the triumph of vocationalism -- From home-project to experience curriculum -- The Great Depression and the heyday of social meliorism -- The hybridization of the curriculum -- The mounting challenge to the subject curriculum -- The state of school subjects at midcentury -- Life adjustment education and the end of an era.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-316) and index.

Curriculum ferment in the 1890s -- The curriculum versus the child -- The curriculum of the Dewey School -- Scientific curriculum-making and the rise of social efficiency as an educational ideal -- Some subject realignment and the triumph of vocationalism -- From home-project to experience curriculum -- The Great Depression and the heyday of social meliorism -- The hybridization of the curriculum -- The mounting challenge to the subject curriculum -- The state of school subjects at midcentury -- Life adjustment education and the end of an era.

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