Curriculum History
The three focal points
A Nation at Risk (of what?)
NCEE
Major argument
Solution?
education remiss - mediocrity
Subtopic
low expectations, lack spiritual strength, less school time
Subtopic
NCLB
purpose
allign curriculum
schools, teachers, students to be accountable
cure of national crisis
controversial
unresachable goal
can not fix everything through test
Subtopic
Timeline
The colonial period
Where and what did people learn? purpose?
focal point of this era
The Harvard Curriculum and Franklin's Academy
The nineteenth century
The transitional period
practical and social
The Common School Movement, land grant universities
NEA's Reports - 1876; 1893; 1895
the twentieth century
Progressive Era & Progrseeive Education
Dewey and Progressive Education, p. 43
The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
the changes
Franklin Bobbit and Activity Analysis
"immediately and tangibly useful"
to replicate
Child-centered curriculum
centered around the child
1920-1930
no standard rules
1927 NSSE Yearbook
the Eight-Year Study
the Sputnik - the "call" for single curriculum
priority of science, math and technology
the federal support/financial incentives
"teacherproof" curricula to boost rigor
1957, subject centered
Bruner - all learn the same way, get the "structure" (key factors of the topic)
discovery learning
the twenty first century