Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum

Name: Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum
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ISBN: 9780807734476

ISBN-10: 0807734470

ISBN-13: 9780807734476

Edition: 1993

Authors: William E. Doll, Jonas F. Soltis, William E. Doll

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 6/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Modern Paradigm: A Closed Vision	p. 19
Descartes' and Newton's World Views	p. 23
Pre-Modern Order	p. 23
Descartes' Method	p. 26
Newton's Stable Universe	p. 33
Curriculum Carryovers	p. 39
America and Technology	p. 39
The Scientific Curriculum	p. 47
The Tyler Rationale	p. 52
The Post-Modern Paradigm: An Open Vision	p. 57
Piaget and Living Systems	p. 63
The Biological World-View	p. 63
Evolution and Entropy - Problems and Promises	p. 72
Piaget's Equilibrium Model	p. 79
Prigogine and Chaotic Order	p. 86
Concepts of Chaos	p. 86
Ilya Prigogine, Self-Organization, and Dissipative Structures	p. 98
The Cognitive Revolution, Bruner, and a New Epistemology	p. 109
Concepts of Cognition	p. 109
Bruner	p. 118
A New Epistemology	p. 124
Dewey, Whitehead, and Process Thought	p. 133
Traditions of Permanence, Change, and Interpretation	p. 133
John Dewey and the Concept of Process	p. 137
Alfred North Whitehead and the Concept of Process	p. 142
Process Thought Beyond Dewey and Whitehead	p. 148
An Educational Vision	p. 155
Constructing a Curriculum Matrix	p. 161
Curriculum Concepts	p. 161
The Four R's - An Alternative to the Tyler Rationale	p. 174
References	p. 185
Index	p. 205
About the Author	p. 215
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