Changing Course: American Curriculum Reform in the 20th Century / Edition 1

by Herbert M. Kliebard, Barbara Finkelstein, William Reese

Overview

In Changing Course, Herbert Kliebard explores an array of efforts to reform the American curriculum. From revolutionary changes effected in a tiny one-room frontier schoolhouse in the late nineteenth century to a modern comprehensive high school, this accessible volume presents a chronological account of specific reform efforts—exposing factors likely to achieve success as well as the roots of many failures. Using a historical perspective to illuminate contemporary problems, this volume examines both the conceptual defects of various reform theories and the ways in which theory clashes with classroom reality. Kliebard argues that educators must examine the entire range of reform efforts in order to find the telltale patterns and "fads" that must be replaced with more meaningful structural changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807742211
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	04/12/2002
Series:	Reflective History Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Herbert M. Kliebard is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include the Outstanding Achievement Award of the John Dewey Society and a lifetime achievement award from the Curriculum Studies division of the American Educational Research Association.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"I am delighted that Herb Kliebard has gathered together these little gems from disparate corners of the academic landscape and put them together for us with new, insightful introductions that address the nature of ‘progressive’ education and the fate of various education reforms. I suspect that most historians of education, like me, will have seen some but not all of them and will be grateful to have them available together for the next generation of students."
—Carl F. Kaestle, Brown University