Turning Points in Curriculum A Contemporary American Memoir

Name: Turning Points in Curriculum A Contemporary American Memoir
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ISBN: 9780023764516

ISBN-10: 0023764511

ISBN-13: 9780023764516

Edition: 2000

Authors: J. Dan Marshall, Schubert, James T. Sears

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For graduate courses in Curriculum Development, Curriculum History, or Curriculum Planning. This comprehensive text is designed to engage readers in a story of curriculum and to invite them to identify with and participate in this important book. This text illustrates how changes in American society and culture correlate with the American field of curriculum studies and curriculum work. It contains five parts that focus on the United States; the first offers a backdrop for parts II-V, which present curriculum's journey through the last half of the 20th century. The text is appropriate as a supplemental text for the graduate level curriculum development course.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

JAMES T. SEARS is professor of curriculum studies at the University of South Carolina.WALTER L. WILLIAMS is professor of anthropology and gender studies at the University of Southern California.




Contextual Panorama for Contemporary Curriculum Work: 1897-1946



Prelude to Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Development



The Rise and Fall of Curriculum Specialists: 1947-1960



Curriculum Development at its Zenith



Transfer by Eminent Domain



Re-Establishing Agency and Agendas: 1961-1969



Muted Heretics Endure, 1961-1964



Transcending a Muddled Juncture, 1965-1969



Re-Shaping the Contemporary Curriculum Field: 1970-1983



The Renaissance Blossoms



From Chorus to Cacophony



The uncertainties of contemporary curriculum work: 1984 to Lately



Implosion and Consolidation



Imagining the Post-Millennial Curriculum Field


Afterword: The Age of Pluralism by Wilma Longstreet


Bibliography


Index