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The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958 » (3rd Edition)

Book cover image of The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958 by Herber Kliebard

Authors: Herber Kliebard
ISBN-13: 9780415948913, ISBN-10: 0415948916
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 3rd Edition

Author Biography: Herber Kliebard

Herbert M. Kliebard is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1876-1946.

Book Synopsis

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.

1	Curriculum ferment in the 1890s	1
2	The curriculum versus the child	26
3	The curriculum of the Dewey School	51
4	Scientific curriculum-making and the rise of social efficiency as an educational ideal	76
5	Some subject realignment and the triumph of vocationalism	105
6	From home-project to experience curriculum	130
7	The great depression and the heyday of social meliorism	151
8	The hybridization of the curriculum	175
9	The mounting challenge to the subject curriculum	200
10	The state of school subjects at midcentury	222
11	Life adjustment education and the end of an era	250