Reflections on people, policy, and practices in curriculum history

"America's schools are constantly in the news today for safety concerns, contested curricula, teacher quality, test scores, and a variety of other topics. Although most people spend at least 12 years in school systems, they know little of the history or evolution of American schooling. The...

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Other Authors Morowski, Deborah L. (Editor), Burlbaw, Lynn M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP | Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2024]
SeriesResearch in curriculum and instruction.
Subjects
Education > Curricula > United States > History.
Curriculum change > United States > History.
Education > Social aspects > United States.
Education > Curricula.
Curriculum planning and development.
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electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806600960
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-546-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. People. Mary C. C. Bradford's contribution to the Colorado curriculum: 1913-1918 / Heather K. Caldwell
  • The impact of informal curriculum experiences: A study of the education of a female community leader in Houston, Texas / Linda J. Black
  • The contributions and influence of F. James Rutherford on American science education: 1960-2022 / Catherine Lange
  • Ruth Harris: Does higher education practice what they teach? / Vanessa Garry and Matthew Davis
  • True believer: The progressivism of Willard Goslin / Whitney G. Blankenship
  • From Greek/Latin to Chinese: what we can learn from the first Chinese teacher at Harvard University / Ye Tian
  • Section 2. Practices. Forty years of service-learning in the United States, 1969-2009 / Thomas A. Kessinger
  • The army specialized training program and "fast track"
  • Professional preparation / Jared R. Stallones
  • Curricula for the country: farmers' institutes in Indiana, 1890-1910 / Glenn P. Lauzon
  • Towards a history of medical higher education in the American South: Southern nationalism, racial ethos, and the Flexner report of 1910 / Tiffany Greer and R. Eric Platt
  • Curriculum and the 1970s culture wars-Man: A course of study / Carolyn A. Weber, Julie Marie Frye, and Connie Ables-Rigsbee
  • The curriculum and courses of study at Connecticut Agricultural College / Simon N. Jorgenson
  • Curricular reforms and progressive rhetoric: examining the programme of study in interwar Ontario, Canada / Theodore M. Christou and Jackson Pind
  • County teachers' institutes: A snapshot from Gonzales, Texas / Deborah L. Morowski and Mindy Spearman
  • Content and pedagogical knowledge in Colorado teachers' mathematics exams at the turn of the 20th Century / Robert M. Capraro, Lynn M. Burlbaw, and Linda Reichwein Zientek
  • Forty years of teacher certification: The de facto social studies curriculum: Colorado County tests, 1880-1920 / Lynn M. Burlbaw
  • Section 3. Policy. Contested curriculum and pedagogy: California during the Rafferty era / Mark Groen
  • Nature study and the new geography: Pre-incarnations of place-based educational theory and practice-1890-1920 / Charles Elfer
  • Chartered waters: The twisted navigation of the American charter school movement / James E. Schul and James W. Reineke
  • Are we men or are we mice: grades, guns, and the formation of gender at Riverside Junior College, 1929-1941 / Margaret A. Nash
  • Schism in the schoolhouse: The tenuous relationship between social scientists and educationists within the AHA commission on the social studies (1929-1934)
  • James E. Schul.

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