Understanding Curriculum

, by Pinar, William F.; Reynolds, William M.; Slattery, Patrick; Taubman, Peter M.

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ISBN: 9780820426013 | 0820426016
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Copyright: 2/1/1995

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Preface and Acknowledgements

xiii

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

(66)

Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction

(64)

Introduction: From Curriculum Development to Understanding Curriculum

(8)

The Synoptic Text: Notes on a Genre

(5)

Textbooks: ``An Important Indicator''

(9)

Conceptions of Curriculum and Curriculum Specialists

(16)

Philip W. Jackson

Mappings of the Field

(13)

Mapping the Contemporary Field

(11)

Research

(11)

Conclusion: Paradigm Wars

(4)

SECTION II: HISTORICAL DISCOURSES 1828-1979

(174)

Understanding Curriculum as Historical Text: Creation and Transformation, 1828-1927

(55)

Introduction: The Importance of History

(1)

The Emergence of the Field in the Nineteenth Century: Faculty Psychology and Classical Curriculum Theory

(8)

The Herbartians

(5)

Toward Child-Centeredness

(7)

Scientific Curriculum Making for Social Efficiency

(13)

The Progressive Reform Movement

103

(18)

Conclusion: A Major Retrospective

121

(3)

Understanding Curriculum as Historical Text: Crisis, Transformation, Crisis, 1928-1969

124

(62)

Introduction: The Tumultuous 1920s and 1930s

124

(9)

The Eight-Year Study

133

(6)

The Synoptic Text

139

(3)

The 1940s: The Triumph of the Middle

142

(9)

The 1950s: A Decade of Criticism, Conflict, and Reformation

151

(8)

The 1960s: Expansion, Conflict, and Contraction

159

(9)

Structure of the Disciplines

159

(3)

Curriculum Projects and Reports

162

(6)

Curriculum Theory in the 1960s

168

(9)

Conclusion: Initial Stages of The Reconceptualization

177

(9)

Understanding Curriculum as Historical Text: The Reconceptualization of the Field 1970-1979

186

(55)

Introduction: A Decade of Cataclysmic and Paradigmatic Change

186

(1)

Popular Press

187

(3)

Humanism in the 1970s

190

(3)

Joseph J. Schwab

193

(4)

Synoptic Textbooks and Other Developments

197

(14)

National Institute of Education: The Curriculum Development Task Force

207

(1)

Tension in ASCD

208

(3)

The Reconceptualization of the Curriculum Field

211

(2)

Phenomenological, Political and Theological Discourses: The Work of Dwayne E. Huebner

213

(5)

Transcendence and Politics: The Work of James B. Macdonald

215

(3)

The Conferences

218

(12)

Controversy

230

(8)

Conclusion: A Reconceptualized Field

238

(3)

SECTION III: CONTEMPORARY CURRICULUM DISCOURSES 1980-1994

241

(604)

Understanding Curriculum as Political Text

243

(72)

Introduction: Curriculum is Political

243

(1)

Reproduction Theory: Apple and Giroux

244

(8)

From Reproduction to Resistance: Apple, Giroux, Goodman

252

(8)

Pedagogy and Practice: Issues of Class, Race, and Gender: Carlson, Freire, Simon, Apple

260

(6)

Criticism and Controversy

266

(27)

Political Theory is Anthropocentric

271

(5)

C. A. Bowers

Political Theory is Reactionary

276

(3)

Philip Wexler

Political Theory is Voyeuristic

279

(2)

Elizabeth Ellsworth

Problems of Agency and Resistance

281

(2)

Discursive Shifts in Political Curriculum Theory

283

(10)

McLaren

Ellsworth

Willinsky

Bowers

Feminism, Semiotics, Poststructuralism, and the Coming Crisis of Political Curriculum Theory

293

(20)

The Constitution of Curriculum

297

(5)

James A. Whitson

Knowledge as Social Practice: Social Practice as Discursive Formation

302

(11)

Conclusion: The Political Sector Divides and Disappears?

313

(2)

Understanding Curriculum as Racial Text

315

(43)

Introduction: Racial Theory is Autonomous

315

(4)

Black Curriculum Orientations

319

(4)

William H. Watkins

Multiculturalism

323

(4)

Cameron McCarthy

Identity and Repression: Castenell and Pinar

327

(4)

Issues of Institutional Practice

331

(4)

Troyna

Hatcher

Sleeter

Racial Representations

335

(11)

Taubman

Edgerton

Whatley

P. Collins

Luttrell

Curriculum Politics

346

(11)

Young

Edelin

Gordon

Conclusion: The Significance of Race

357

(1)

Understanding Curriculum as Gender Text

358

(46)

Introduction: The Prevailing System of Gender

358

(1)

Historical Background

359

(4)

The Most Public Revolution

363

(7)

The Reformist Position

365

(1)

The Radical Analysis

366

(4)

Feminism, Gender Analysis, and the Reconceptualization

370

(6)

The Late 1970s

371

(5)

Conception, Contradiction, and Attachment: The Scholarship of Madeleine R. Grumet

376

(5)

Creating Spaces and Finding Voices: The Scholarship of Janet L. Miller

381

(3)

Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness: The Scholarship of Jo Anne Pagano

384

(3)

Feminist Pedagogy and Politics: An Overview

387

(9)

Gender Analysis and Male Identity

396

(6)

Curriculum as Homosexual Text: The Scholarship of James T. Sears

396

(3)

Profeminist Men: The Scholarship of Jesse Goodman

399

(1)

Other Gender Analyses

400

(2)

Conclusion: Isolation and Influence

402

(2)

Understanding Curriculum as Phenomenological Text

404

(46)

Introduction: A Poetic Activity

404

(6)

Critique of Mainstream Social Science

410

(7)

Aoki

Grumet

Jardine

Phenomenological Foundations of Currere

414

(3)

Curriculum Language: Huebner and Smith

417

(5)

Hermeneutics

422

(5)

Smith

Atkins

Reynolds

Martel

Peterat

Teaching

427

(7)

Aoki

van Manen

Reading and Writing

434

(6)

Grumet

Hunsberger

van Manen

The Secret Place

440

(3)

Langeveld

Smith

Temporality

443

(3)

Huebner

Lippitz

Conclusion: A Discursive Shift toward Poststructuralism?

446

(4)

Understanding Curriculum as Poststructuralist, Deconstructed, Postmodern Text

450

(65)

Introduction: Language, Power, and Desire

450

(2)

Poststructuralism

452

(13)

Deconstruction

465

(3)

Postmodernism

468

(7)

Poststructuralism and Curriculum Theory

475

(22)

Desire and Identity

476

(4)

Peter Taubman

Between Suicide and Murder

480

(5)

Jacques Daignault

Poststructural Criticism of Traditional Curriculum Theory

485

(5)

Cleo Cherryholmes

Arch-Writing on the Body

490

(1)

jan jagodzinski

Above All a Matter of Language

491

(1)

Clermont Gauthier

A Taoist Connection

492

(1)

Wen-Song Hwu

Poststructuralist Influences on Other Contemporary Curriculum Discourses

493

(4)

Postmodernism and Curriculum Theory: The Work of

497

(6)

William E. Doll Jr.

Postmodernism, Feminist Theory, and Politics: Lather, Giroux, Kincheloe, Steinberg, McLaren

503

(11)

Postformal Thinking

509

(1)

Joe L. Kincheloe

Shirley R. Steinberg

The Postmodern Critical Theory of Peter McLaren

510

(4)

Conclusion: Post Poststructuralism?

514

(1)

Understanding Curriculum as Autobiographical/Biographical Text

515

(52)

Introduction: Three Streams of Scholarship

515

(2)

Autobiographical Theory and Classroom Practice

517

(27)

Currere

518

(7)

Voice

525

(7)

Place

532

(4)

Joe L. Kincheloe

William F. Pinar

Self as Discursive Formation: Poststructuralism and Autobiography

536

(4)

Daignault

Taubman

Grumet

Dreams, Myth, and Imagination

540

(4)

Mary Aswell Doll

Feminist Autobiographical Theory

544

(9)

The Middle Passage

548

(3)

Grumet

Miller

Autobiographical Reclamations of the Self

551

(2)

Grumet

Reiniger

Studying Teachers' Lives

553

(11)

Collaborative Autobiography

554

(3)

Richard Butt

Danielle Raymond

Personal Practical Knowledge

557

(4)

F. Michael Connelly

D. Jean Clandinin

Teacher Lore

561

(2)

William Schubert

William Ayers

Biographical Studies

563

(1)

Ivor F. Goodson

Conclusion: Not Pruned from the Disciplines

564

(3)

Understanding Curriculum as Aesthetic Text

567

(39)

Introduction: Not the Singing of Hymns

567

(2)

Significance of the Arts

569

(2)

Broudy

Beyer

Hamblen

Aesthetic Knowing and Inquiry

571

(5)

Rosario

Vallance

Barone

Twentieth-Century Art and Curriculum Theory

576

(2)

Ronald E. Padgham

Art and Society

578

(3)

Landon E. Beyer

The Art of Curriculum and Teaching

581

(8)

Eisner

Vallance

Figgins

Curriculum as Theater

589

(12)

Grumet

Figgins

Norris

Steinberg

Figure/Ground in Currere: The 1976 University of Rochester Theater Festival

591

(8)

Reclamations

599

(2)

Collective Creation

601

(1)

Mind, Body, and the Postmodern

601

(3)

Jagodzinski

Hamblen

Sawada

Blumenfeld-Jones

Conclusion: Imagination and Wonder

604

(2)

Understanding Curriculum as Theological Text

606

(55)

Introduction: Historical Background

606

(6)

Contemporary Concerns

612

(15)

Moral and Ethical Dimensions

627

(11)

Huebner

Purpel

Oliver

Gershman

Hermeneutics

638

(5)

Liberation Theology

643

(9)

Kincheloe

Slattery

Eschatology, Cosmology, and Feminist Theology

652

(7)

Slattery

Mitrano

Noddings

Conclusion: Between the Ideal and the Actual

659

(2)

Understanding Curriculum as Institutionalized Text

661

(131)

Part One: Curriculum Development

664

(1)

Curriculum Policy

665

(6)

Elmore

Sykes

McNeil

Page

Shulman

School Reform: Sizer and Cheney

671

(13)

Decentralization

675

(4)

Hans Weiler

David Tyack

Curriculum in Restructured Schools

679

(5)

D. Tanner

McNeil

Cuban

Kirst

Meister

Weiler

Curriculum Planning, Design, and Organization

684

(15)

Saylor

Alexander

Lewis

Egan

Noddings

A Shift in the Field

690

(4)

Kieran Egan

Caring

694

(3)

Nel Noddings

The Core Curriculum: Goodlad and Su

697

(2)

Curriculum Implementation

699

(5)

Snyder

Bolin

Zumwalt

Fullan

Three Major Approaches

699

(5)

Technology

704

(16)

Saettler

Bereiter

Scardamalia

Bowers

Visual Instruction

706

(3)

Programmed Instruction

709

(8)

Technology Education

717

(3)

Supervision

720

(12)

Sergiovanni

Smyth

Garman

Haggerson

Curriculum Evaluation

732

(10)

Scriven

Stake

Eisner

Quantititive vs. Qualitative Methods

736

(1)

Disciplinary Foundations

737

(1)

The Artist as Curriculum Evaluator

738

(4)

Eisner

Conclusion

742

(2)

Part Two: Curriculum and Teachers

744

(1)

Pedagogy

744

(11)

Doyle

Shulman

Jackson

Cuban

Preservice Teacher Education: The Holmes Group

755

(8)

In-service Teacher Education

763

(12)

Aoki

Hargreaves

Fullan

Jackson

Teacher Lore

765

(3)

Schubert

Ayers

Studying Teachers' Lives

768

(2)

Goodson

Teacher Thinking and Development

770

(1)

Kincheloe

Smyth

Britzman

Carlson

The Critical Thinking Movement

771

(4)

Ennis

L. Tanner

Textbooks

775

(6)

Venezky

Elson

Doyle

Part Three: Curriculum and Students

781

(1)

School Lunch

781

(4)

Frederick Erickson

Jeffrey Shultz

Becoming Somebody

785

(3)

Philip Wexler

Nancy Lesko

The Extracurriculum

788

(2)

Laura Berk

Conclusion

790

(2)

Understanding Curriculum as International Text

792

(53)

Introduction: Politics and Research

792

(4)

Educational Outcomes

796

(3)

Global Education

799

(5)

Japan

804

(5)

Germany

809

(5)

The People's Republic of China

814

(4)

Africa

818

(8)

Latin America

826

(4)

Selected Contemporary Discourses

830

(11)

Carson

Willinsky

Gutek

Thelin

Conclusion: Education for Global Survival

841

(4)

SECTION IV: CONCLUSION: POSTSCRIPT

845

(24)

Understanding Curriculum: A Postscript for the Next Generation

847

(22)

Introduction

847

(2)

The Curriculum Field Today: Problems and Possibilities

849

(7)

What Is the Field Saying?

856

(7)

Conclusion

863

(3)

Prologue

866

(3)

References

869

(166)

Subject Index

1035

(82)

Name Index

1117

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