The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958
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Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks.
1Curriculum ferment in the 1890s12The curriculum versus the child263The curriculum of the Dewey School514Scientific curriculum-making and the rise of social efficiency as an educational ideal765Some subject realignment and the triumph of vocationalism1056From home-project to experience curriculum1307The great depression and the heyday of social meliorism1518The hybridization of the curriculum1759The mounting challenge to the subject curriculum20010The state of school subjects at midcentury22211Life adjustment education and the end of an era250
