Originally published in 1992. Herbert M. Kliebard is considered one of the foremost historians in the field of education. This is a collection of 12 seminal essays 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 formed the curriculum. Among other things he talks about the decline of the humanities curriculum, important education reformers such as John Dewey, and the "enemies" of the liberal arts curriculum in Victorian England.
Originally published in 1992. This is a collection of 12 seminal essays that represents the best of Herbert M. Kliebard's writing and reflection on the history and theory of curriculum studies.
Introduction Part 1: Essays in Curriculum History
1. The Decline of
Humanistic Studies in the American School Curriculum (1984)
2. The Liberal
Arts Curriculum and Its Enemies: The Effort to Redefine General Education
(1988)
3. Keeping Out of Natures Way: The Rise and Fall of Child Study as
the Basis for Curriculum, 1880-1905 (1992)
4. Dewey and the Herbartians: The
Genesis of a Theory of Curriculum (1981)
5. The Rise of Scientific
Curriculum-Making and its Aftermath (1975)
6. Success and Failure in
Educational Reform: Are There Historical Lessons? (1989) Part 2: Essays in
Curriculum Theory
7. Bureaucracy and Curriculum Theory (1971)
8. What Is the
Question in Teacher Education? (1973)
9. The Tyler Rationale (1970)
10.
Curriculum Theory: Give Me a "For Instance" (1976)
11. Vocational Education
as Symbolic Action: Connecting Schooling with the Workplace (1990)
12.
Curriculum Theory as Metaphor (1982)
Herbert M. Kliebard was a historian of education and professor emeritus at the University of WisconsinMadison. He is best known for his 1995 book, The Struggle for the American Curriculum.
