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Alexander, Patricia A., Diane L. Schallert, and Victoria C. Hare, "Coming to Terms: How Researchers in Learning and Literacy Talk About Knowledge," Review of Educational Research, 61 (Fall, 1991), 315-343.*, Patricia A. Alexander, Diane L. Schallert, and Victoria C. Hare

Annotation: Analyzes various uses of the term "knowledge".

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: English

 

Applebee, Arthur N., Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996., Arthur N. Applebee

Annotation: Proposes a conception of curriculum as conversation with attendent options for alternative patterns of design and related pedogogy; examples are from models in the curriculum of English but principles are applicable more generally.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teaching/Learning Process, English, Content Selection and Organization

 

Atkins, Elaine, "A Sensible, Faculty-designed Model for Curriculum Development," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision , 6 (Summer, 1991), 312-324., Elaine Atkins

Annotation: Describes the process of deliberation carried on by an English faculty in the Community College of Philadelphia.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry, Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Higher Education Curriculum, English

 

Brause, Rita S., and John S. Mayher, eds., Search and Re-Search: What the Inquiring Teacher Needs to Know. Bristol, PA: Falmer Press, 1991., Rita S. Brause and John S. Mayher

Annotation: Provides guidelines for hypothesis generating and hypotheses testing studies in classrooms by teachers and reports selected studies in the language area.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research, English

 

Brown, Anthony L., and Keffrelyn D. Brown, "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Excavating Race and 'Enduring Racism' in U. S. Curriculum," Teachers College Record, 117(No.14, 2015), 103-130., Anthony L. Brown and Keffrelyn D. Brown

Annotation: Traces the evidence of racism in children's literature and U. S. History books; concludes that this evidence aligns with similar discourse in the wider society historically; much remains to be done to create curriculum that is humanizing for Black children and all others.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum History, Multicultural Education, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Social Studies, English

 

Flinders, David J., "Teaching for Cultural Literacy: A Curriculum Study," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision , 11 (Summer, 1996), 351-366.*, David J. Flinders

Annotation: Gives an artistic criticism (a la Eisner) of two cases (poetry and social studies) of curriculum enactments.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Social Studies, English

 

Gehrke, Nathalie, Michael S. Knapp, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik, "In Search of the School Curriculum," pp. 51-110. Gerald Grant, ed., Review of Research in Education, 18: 1992 Washington, D.C. : American Educational Research Association, 1992., Nathalie Gehrke, Michael S. Knapp, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik

Annotation: Reviews research on what is taught in the U.S. in language arts, social studies, math and science.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science

 

Giroux, Henry A., "Curriculum Theory, Textual Authority, and the Role of Teachers as Public Intellectuals," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 5(Summer, 1990), 361-383., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Traces the relation bewteen discourse used in curriculum theory and practice and critiques the textual authority and political voice of teachers and the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Authority of Teacher, Curriculum and Politics, English, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Ideology and School Knowledge, Democratic Education, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

 

Giroux, Henry A., "Liberal Arts, Teaching, and Critical Literacy: Toward a Definition of School as a Form of Cultural Politics," pp. 243-263 in William F. Pinar, ed., Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. Scottsdale,AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1988., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Discusses the use of schooling as a form of cultural politics.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, English

 

Giroux, Henry A., "Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling," pp. 205-231 in his Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1983., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: GIves a critique of current debate on literacy and schooling including instrumental, interaction, and reproduction ideologies; refers to Freire's notion of critical literacy.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum and Politics, English

 

Giroux, Henry A., "Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies," pp. 54-73 in his Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Discusses the implications of critical pedagogy on the social studies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Social Studies, English, Critical Thinking

 

Gundem, Bjorg B., "Curriculum Reform and the School Subject "English" in the Norwegian Common School," pp. 233-240 in Craig Kridel, ed., Curriculum History . Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989., Bjorg B. Gundem

Annotation: The story of changes in English as a foreign language in the Norwegian schools and their relation to social and ideological factors.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: English, Comparative Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Nelson, Nancy, and Robert C. Calfee, "The Reading-Writing Connection Viewed Historically," pp. 1-52 in Nancy Nelson and Robert C. Calfee, eds., The Reading-Writing Connection. Ninety -seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998., Nancy Nelson and Robert C. Calfee

Annotation: Traces the development of English as a school and college subject in the United States; includes current trends.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, English, Curriculum History, Higher Education Curriculum

 

Rutten, Kris, and Ronald Soetaert, "Revisiting the Rhetorical Curriculum," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 44(No. 6, 2012), 727-743., Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert

Annotation: Makes the case for inclusion of the new rhetoric in the curriculum; reviews the related literature; introduces a set of essays related to the topic appearing in the same issue of the Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, English

 

Toohey, Kellen, "Minority Education Failure: Is Dialect a Factor?" Curriculum Inquiry, 16(Summer, 1986), 127-145., Kellen Toohey

Annotation: Summarizes the literature on the topic; concludes that differences in ways language is used in school and in minority communities outside school deserves further investigation; suggests teachers do their own inquiries into these matters.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Multiethnic Adaptation, English

 

Westbury, Ian, "The Curriculum: What Is It and How Should We Think About It?" pp. 129-158 in M. Bloomer and K. E. Shaw, eds., The Challenge of Educational Change: Limitations and Potentialities . Oxford: Pergamon, 1979.*, Ian Westbury

Annotation: Challenges the means-end form of argument commonly used in curriculum policy rhetoric because it ignores ideological, historical, and institutional issues that require deliberate practical reasoning to resolve.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, School Subjects, English

 

Wixson, Karen K, Elizabeth Dutro, and Ruth G. Athan, "The Challenge of Developing Content Standards," pp. 69-107 in Robert E. Floden, ed., Review of Research in Education, 27: 2003. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association, 2004.*, Karen K. Wixson, Elizabeth Dutro, and Ruth G. Athan

Annotation: Traces the history of the entire content standards movement, with special attention to the English language arts, both state and national influences.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Standards and Testing, English, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Government Role in Educational Research & Development, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum