Patterns of Educational Practice:
Theories of Curriculum
by Richard W. Morshead
Designed as a broad and comprehensive explanation of the various
ways in which education has taken place in the United States from
the beginning of the country to the present. Focusing on the
function of curriculum in defining the nature of American
education, the author inspects the wide range of theories that have
played a major role in curriculum development and operation.
The author's method throughout this book is to establish
three-way linkages between ideologies, ethical systems, and
curricula. Linkages are made among eight curricula --
- the vocational,
- the progressive,
- the classical,
- the character training,
- the elective,
- the subject-centered,
- the humanistic, and
- the performance curricula --
with their appropriate ideologies and ethical systems.
- Ordering Information:
- ISBN 0-87650-318-0, 6 x 9, 352p, paper, 1995, $28.00
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