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The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958 / Herbert M. Kliebard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kliebard, Herbert M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Curricula--United States--History--20th century.
- Education.
- Curriculum planning--United States--History--20th century.
- Curriculum planning.
- Education--Curricula--United States--History--19th century.
- Curriculum planning--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-93332-4
- 1-135-93333-2
- 1-280-05943-5
- 0-203-33998-3
- 9780203339985
- OCLC:
- 74836637
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