Reflections on people, policy, and practices in curriculum history / editors, Deborah L. Morowski, (Augusta University), Lynn M. Burlbaw, (Texas A&M University).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morowski, Deborah L., editor.

Burlbaw, Lynn M., editor.

Series:

Research in curriculum and instruction.

Research in curriculum and instruction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Curricula--United States--History.

Education.

Curriculum change--United States--History.

Curriculum change.

Education--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Information Age Publishing 2024

Summary:

"America's schools are constantly in the news today for safety concerns, contested curricula, teacher quality, test scores, and a variety of other topics. Although most people spend at least 12 years in school systems, they know little of the history or evolution of American schooling. The collection of papers assembled in this book are divided into three categories which greatly impacted American schooling: people, policy, and practices. This work seeks to shed light on what has occurred in curriculum history in the past so as to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how our system of schooling arrived at its current state. The first section of the book examines the stories of people who had an influence on schooling and education. The second section focuses on the curricula and programs that were utilized in schools and districts throughout the country. The final chapter of the book looks at decisions that had long-ranging impact on educational policies. The chapters of this book offer a glimpse into the history of American schooling and those people, policies, and practices that influenced its development. It is the editors' hope that the work will spark interest in scholars and students of educational history to examine other past, as well as present, stories of educators to expand our understanding of the saga that is the American schooling experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Section 1. People. Mary C. C. Bradford's contribution to the Colorado curriculum: 1913-1918 / Heather K. Caldwell

The impact of informal curriculum experiences: A study of the education of a female community leader in Houston, Texas / Linda J. Black

The contributions and influence of F. James Rutherford on American science education: 1960-2022 / Catherine Lange

Ruth Harris: Does higher education practice what they teach? / Vanessa Garry and Matthew Davis

True believer: The progressivism of Willard Goslin / Whitney G. Blankenship

From Greek/Latin to Chinese: what we can learn from the first Chinese teacher at Harvard University / Ye Tian

Section 2. Practices. Forty years of service-learning in the United States, 1969-2009 / Thomas A. Kessinger

The army specialized training program and "fast track"

Professional preparation / Jared R. Stallones

Curricula for the country: farmers' institutes in Indiana, 1890-1910 / Glenn P. Lauzon

Towards a history of medical higher education in the American South: Southern nationalism, racial ethos, and the Flexner report of 1910 / Tiffany Greer and R. Eric Platt

Curriculum and the 1970s culture wars-Man: A course of study / Carolyn A. Weber, Julie Marie Frye, and Connie Ables-Rigsbee

The curriculum and courses of study at Connecticut Agricultural College / Simon N. Jorgenson

Curricular reforms and progressive rhetoric: examining the programme of study in interwar Ontario, Canada / Theodore M. Christou and Jackson Pind

County teachers' institutes: A snapshot from Gonzales, Texas / Deborah L. Morowski and Mindy Spearman

Content and pedagogical knowledge in Colorado teachers' mathematics exams at the turn of the 20th Century / Robert M. Capraro, Lynn M. Burlbaw, and Linda Reichwein Zientek

Forty years of teacher certification: The de facto social studies curriculum: Colorado County tests, 1880-1920 / Lynn M. Burlbaw

Section 3. Policy. Contested curriculum and pedagogy: California during the Rafferty era / Mark Groen

Nature study and the new geography: Pre-incarnations of place-based educational theory and practice-1890-1920 / Charles Elfer

Chartered waters: The twisted navigation of the American charter school movement / James E. Schul and James W. Reineke

Are we men or are we mice: grades, guns, and the formation of gender at Riverside Junior College, 1929-1941 / Margaret A. Nash

Schism in the schoolhouse: The tenuous relationship between social scientists and educationists within the AHA commission on the social studies (1929-1934)

James E. Schul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80660-096-X

979-88-87305-46-2

OCLC:

1568056024