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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784095203321

Autore

Kliebard Herbert M.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93332-4

1-135-93333-2

1-280-05943-5

0-203-33998-3

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

370.11/3/0973

Soggetti

Education - Curricula - United States - History - 20th century

Curriculum planning - United States - History - 20th century

Education - Curricula - United States - History - 19th century

Curriculum planning - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated.