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Author Kliebard, Herbert M.

Title The struggle for the American curriculum, 1893-1958 / Herbert M. Kliebard.

Publication Info. New York, NY : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  375 K65S    Check Shelf
Edition Third edition.
Description xxii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-316) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Education -- United States -- Curricula -- History -- 20th century.
Curriculum planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Education -- United States -- Curricula -- History -- 19th century.
Curriculum planning -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0415948908 hardback alkaline paper
0415948916 paperback alkaline paper
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