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Social Efficiency or Vocational Efficiency?: Toward a Deeper Knowledge of a Misunderstood Term
No full textCurriculum historians must pay close attention to the historical time and social context in which previous scholars contributed their work. Social efficiency provides a good example of a complex term that seems to have grown larger than the specific time and social context in which various individuals from the past understood the term. This paper, rather than redefining social efficiency calls for a broadening and a more complete understanding of this highly important term to the history of the curriculum field
Global Education in the United States: A Retrospective, 1976-2000
No full textThe subject of "global education" has ebbed and flowed in the United States over the past thirty years even though the movement\u27s roots date back to the 1960s. This manuscript offers a look at various notions and definitions of global education, then identifies advocates for global education, and—in the process—reviews the literature of the movement from 1976-2000
Prelude to Professional Identity and Organization: American Public School Curriculum Workers
No full textIn February, 1927, a larger than usual number of school curriculum workers met informally at the Dallas meeting of the Department of Superintendence. As had done at their previous two meetings, they talked about curriculum projects in their school systems. The small group also took an unusual action. It requested the Research Division of the National Education Association to survey curriculum work being undertaken by city schools across the United States Additionally, it asked the Research Division to serve as a clearing house for curriculum research studies completed in school systems enrolled in the Department\u27s Cooperative Plan of Curriculum Revision. Their short meeting completed, the curriculum workers agreed to meet at the following year\u27s convention of the Department of Superintendence. The 1928 meeting would be in Boston. A. K. Loomis, Denver\u27s Director of Curriculum, continued to serve as the group\u27s convener
Toward Interdisciplinarity: Approaches to the Disciplines From the 1890s
No full textWith the increasing interest in interdisciplinary and integrated curriculum, techniques for assisting teachers and curriculum directors in approaching what is generally regarded as a new innovation have begun to proliferate. · On the whole, these approaches appear to be largely techniques, but neither this aspect nor the notion of interdisciplinary teaching is new. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the theoretical work in interdisciplinary curriculum which was done a century ago and to stimulate thinking about interdisciplinary curriculum which moves beyond the purely technical
Linden Hall: Its Early Curricular History
No full textLinden Hall School for Girls in Lititz, Pennsylvania was founded in 1746. It is the oldest girls boarding school in continuous operation in the U. S.. As an institution it cuts across and reflects many of the most significant events and movements which have helped shape secondary education in America
Civics Education as a Component of the School Curriculum: The Australian Experience in the Early Twentieth Century
No full textCitizenship education has been an important feature of the school curriculum in the United States from the time of Hamilton and Jefferson when it was argued that "educating people for citizenship was ... a means of assuring the establishment and maintenance of the republic (Dynneson and Gross, 1992, p.2). In Australia, however, citizenship education has not had such an impetus and at least one explanation has been offered (Kennedy, 1993, p. I). There has not been the historical need in Australia to create and reinforce a rationale for a \u27new\u27 democracy. Australians in general have settled for a democracy based on their colonial heritage. For the most part, the issue of how a democratic culture might actively be manifested in Australia has remained unaddressed
An Historical Study of National Curriculum Standards in Australia 1975-1995
No full textOver the decades educators have debated and made assertions about curriculum standards. Many of the pronouncements were little more than rhetoric. Assertions about new national standards in terms of curriculum content or processes are of little importance unless conditions are created to produce these new levels. Australia has bad its share of pronouncements, plans and blueprints. National initiatives are especially sensitive within the Australian scene because of states \u27 rights in terms of delivery of education (Kennedy 1986). Consequently it is instructive to trace some national initiatives over a twenty-year period, 1975-95, to ascertain what have been some of the achievements, along with the inevitable impasses and failures
Textbooks, Curriculum and Distortion: An Attempt to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance for Negro Children During Desegregation
No full textThis paper focuses on the examination one aspect of the contradictory position between the concept of equal educational opportunity in a democracy and the maintenance of racial segregation in education. This historical inquiry focuses, in general, on the curriculum in Negro schools prior to and during desegregation. In particular, this inquiry focuses on the contradictory position of Black teachers\u27 use of textbooks in teaching U.S. History and U.S. Government