The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

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, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks.

Education & Teaching

Kliebard, Herbert M.

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Herbert M. Kliebard is considered one of the foremost historians in the field of education. His new book, "Forging the American Curriculum", is a collection of 12 seminal essays - all of them previously published - that represents the best of his writing and reflection on the history and theory of curriculum studies. Asserting that the 20th century in particular has been a critical period in the development of the American curriculum, Kliebard delves into the historical events and theoretical principles that have made the curriculum what it is today. Turning first to the subject of curriculum history, Kliebard focuses his attention on a range of subjects that showcase the depth and range of his historical understanding. Countering the notion that the decline of the humanities curriculum is a contemporary problem, for instance, Kliebard argues that its fall actually dates from the advent of Darwinism in the latter part of the 19th century. Kliebard also carefully examines important education reformers such as John Dewey, and unearths the influences on his liberal doctrines. Finally, he reveals the "enemies" of the liberal arts curriculum in Victorian England.

Forging the American Curriculum: Essays in Curriculum History and Theory

The Struggle for the American Curriculum: 1893-1958

Examining the struggle for the American curriculum, this book covers topics such as curriculum ferment in the 1890s; the curriculum of the Dewey school; scientific curriculum-making; subject re-alignment and vocationalism; and the Great Depression and social reconstructionism.

History

Professor Kliebard explores the subtle and complex forces that helped to shape the contemporary American curriculum, focusing on the years 1893 to 1958.

Americas

This text examines the subtlety and complexity of the forces that helped to shape the contemporary American curriculum.

The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958

Routledge& Kegan Paul

In this trenchant interpretation of the rise of vocational education, Herbert M. Kliebard explains how Americans turned to public schools for answers to the problems of an increasingly urban, industrial society. Tracing the evolution of job training as an educational ideal, Kliebard analyzes the construction of vocationalism through three overlapping but distinctive stages. In the first stage, manual training is promoted as a pedagogical reform and moral corrective. In the second stage, vocational training for the new industrial workplace emerges as a major component of the American curriculum and contributes to its bifurcation. In the final stage, preparation to enter the workforce begins to eclipse other educational purposes. Concluding with a Deweyan critique of vocationalism, this book offers a much-needed perspective with which to view current debates about the meaning of public education and the transition from “school to work.”

Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946

Higher & Continuing Education

Teachers' College Press

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The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

Forging the American Curriculum: Essays in Curriculum History and Theory

The Struggle for the American Curriculum: 1893-1958

The Struggle for the American Curriculum: 1893-1958

The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958

Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946

Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946