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

Author/creator Kliebard, Herbert M.
Format Electronic
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoNew York, NY : RoutledgeFalmer,
Descriptionxxii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-316) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004004891
ISBN0415948908 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415948916 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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