Critical times in curriculum thought : people, politics, and perspectives

This book is designed to be used at a master's level for a degree in curriculum and instruction, teacher education or educational leadership. It could be used as a primary or a supplementary text. The book is divided into three parts: The first section focuses on the contributions of noted educ...

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Other Authors Kysilka, Marcella L. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
SeriesStudies in the history of education (Greenwich, Conn.)
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616398
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-229-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Edmund C. Short
  • Preface / Karen L. Riley
  • Acknowledgments
  • Section I. People
  • Chapter 1. Florence barbara stratemeyer and the creation of teacher education as a field of inquiry / Martin Haberman and Dean C. Corrigan
  • Chapter 2. He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education: Booker t. Washington's curriculum of self-help / Karen L. Riley
  • Chapter 3. Extraordinarily ordinary: Alice miel's legacy for a new generation of curriculum workers / Jennifer Deets
  • Chapter 4. Nothing so uncommon: Ralph W. Tyler and his defining perspective / Gerald Ponder and Dixie Massey
  • Chapter 5. Hilda Taba: A voice in the wilderness / Barbara Stern
  • Chapter 6. Overcoming misconceptions in actualizing Deweys philosophy of education / William Schubert and Heidi Ann Schubert
  • Section II. Politics
  • Chapter 7. A curriculum of civil rights: Teaching the taboo and struggling toward freedom / William Ayers
  • Chapter 8. Fighting for gender equity in curriculum / Susan C. Brown
  • Chapter 9. The race to space: Launching fear and blasting off to reform / Peggy Moch
  • Chapter 10. Multicultural teacher education through aesthetic inquiry / Gloria Contreras and Ron Wilhelm
  • Chapter 11. Politics, money, and knowledge in the new order / William Watkins
  • Section III. Perspectives
  • Chapter 12. Social justice and curriculum: A terrain of promise and problems / William Gaudelli and Dennis Urban
  • Chapter 13. A history of curriculum integration / Lynne Bailey
  • Chapter 14. The rise and demise of the comprehensive high school / Marcella Kysilka
  • Chapter 15. Curriculum studies, the No Child Left Behind Act, and disability studies: A perfect storm for special education? / Allison Dickey
  • Chapter 16. Its the curriculum, stupid! A brief history of the media and media literacy in American schooling / Gretchen Schwarz and Janet Dunlop
  • About the authors.