1st Edition

Curriculum Theory, History, and Applications for Education

By J. Spencer Clark Copyright 2027
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

Curriculum Theory, History, and Applications for Education serves as a comprehensive guide to curriculum history, theory, and contemporary curriculum applications, offering essential context for modern curriculum theories and courses. This textbook begins with a concise history of twentieth-century curriculum ideology and development, offering essential context for modern curriculum theories... Read more

Acknowledgements  Preface  1. Understanding Curriculum Ideology, Epistemology, Theory, and Its Intents  Section 1: The Development of Curriculum Ideologies in U.S., 1600s- 1958  2. American Curriculum Before the 1890s: Historical Patterns and Social Forces  3. The Progressive Era and the Making of the Modern Curriculum, 1890-1930  4. From Social Reconstruction to National Defense: Curriculum Thought, 1930- 1958  Section 2: Humanism to Digital Literacies- The Advancement of Modern Curriculum Thought  5. The Humanist, Rational Humanist, and Scholar Academic Ideologies  6. The Enduring Progressive Curricular Ideologies  7. Dewey, Experientialism, and Inquiry-based learning as Curricular Ideologies  8. Critical Theorists Influencing Curricular Ideologies  9. Critical Pragmatism as Curriculum Ideology  10. Postmodern, Poststructualism, and Existentialism as Curricular Ideologies  11. The Reconceptualists and Curricular Ideology  12. Cosmopolitanism, Ecological Theory, and Situational Praxis as Curricular Ideologies  13. Cognitive Pluralism as Curricular Ideology  14. Digital Literacies, Citizenship, and Creativity as Curricular Ideology  Section 3: Integrative Theoretical Approaches to Curriculum Design  15. A Modified Dollian Approach to Curriculum Design  16. An Ecological Approach to Curriculum: Inspired by Huebner  17. A Critically and Ethnically Pragnamtic Approach to Curriculum: Inspired by Cherryholmes  18. A Kincheloean Curriculum Framework: Inspired by Joe Kincheloe  19. In Closing: Toward a Living Curriculum: Complexity, Ethics, Democracy, and Epistemic Justice  Index

Biography

J. Spencer Clark is Professor of Curriculum Studies at Kansas State University, USA.