Curriculum Theory, History, and Applications for Education serves as a comprehensive guide to curriculum history, theory, and contemporary curriculum applications, offering essential context for modern curriculum theories and courses. This textbook begins with a concise history of 20th-century curriculum ideology and development, offering essential context for modern curriculum theories and schooling. It then explores 15 curriculum ideologies, over 10 chapters, and examines their goals, intended outcomes, limitations, and consequences in educational contexts. In the final “Applications” section, readers will engage with interpretive curriculum frameworks – influenced by theorists such as Doll, Huebner, Cherryholmes, and Kincheloe – and learn how to apply and implement the ideologies, epistemologies, and theories in the classroom. This valuable resource helps readers understand curriculum ideological inheritances, the ways in which curriculum shapes schooling, and offers modern alternative ideologies and theories to transform school or district curricula from deficit-based to asset-based or student-centered approaches. Combining theory with practice, this textbook will be essential reading for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Curriculum Studies, Curriculum Theory, Foundations of Education, Education Policy, History of Education, and Philosophy of Education courses.
Curriculum Theory, History, and Applications for Education serves as a guide to curriculum history, theory, and contemporary curriculum applications, offering essential context for modern curriculum courses. Combining theory with practice, this textbook is essential reading for students in Curriculum Studies and Education courses.
Acknowledgements Preface
1. Understanding Curriculum Ideology,
Epistemology, Theory, and Its Intents Section 1: The Development of
Curriculum Ideologies in U.S., 1600s- 1958
2. American Curriculum Before the
1890s: Historical Patterns and Social Forces
3. The Progressive Era and the
Making of the Modern Curriculum, 1890-1930
4. From Social Reconstruction to
National Defense: Curriculum Thought, 1930- 1958 Section 2: Humanism to
Digital Literacies- The Advancement of Modern Curriculum Thought
5. The
Humanist, Rational Humanist, and Scholar Academic Ideologies
6. The Enduring
Progressive Curricular Ideologies
7. Dewey, Experientialism, and
Inquiry-based learning as Curricular Ideologies
8. Critical Theorists
Influencing Curricular Ideologies
9. Critical Pragmatism as Curriculum
Ideology
10. Postmodern, Poststructualism, and Existentialism as Curricular
Ideologies
11. The Reconceptualists and Curricular Ideology
12.
Cosmopolitanism, Ecological Theory, and Situational Praxis as Curricular
Ideologies
13. Cognitive Pluralism as Curricular Ideology
14. Digital
Literacies, Citizenship, and Creativity as Curricular Ideology Section 3:
Integrative Theoretical Approaches to Curriculum Design
15. A Modified
Dollian Approach to Curriculum Design
16. An Ecological Approach to
Curriculum: Inspired by Huebner
17. A Critically and Ethnically Pragnamtic
Approach to Curriculum: Inspired by Cherryholmes
18. A Kincheloean Curriculum
Framework: Inspired by Joe Kincheloe
19. In Closing: Toward a Living
Curriculum: Complexity, Ethics, Democracy, and Epistemic Justice Index
J. Spencer Clark is Professor of Curriculum Studies at Kansas State University, USA.
