The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958
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3rd ed.
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New York, NY :
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RoutledgeFalmer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxii, 330 p. :
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-316) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Curriculum ferment in the 1890s -- The curriculum versus the child -- The curriculum of the Dewey School -- Scientific curriculum-making and the rise of social efficiency as an educational ideal -- Some subject realignment and the triumph of vocationalism -- From home-project to experience curriculum -- The Great Depression and the heyday of social meliorism -- The hybridization of the curriculum -- The mounting challenge to the subject curriculum -- The state of school subjects at midcentury -- Life adjustment education and the end of an era.