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Apple, Michael W., "Work, Power, and Curriculum Reform: A Response to Theodore Lewis's 'Vocational Education as General Education'," Curriculum Inquiry, 28(Fall, 1998), 339-360., Michael W. Apple

Annotation: Responds to and critiques the article by Lewis in the same issue of Curriculum Inquiry.

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: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Liberal Education/General Education

 

Boostrom, Robert, "Arts and Disciplines," pp. 34-54 in Robert Boostrom, Thinking: The Foundation of Critical and Creative Learning in the Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 2005., Robert Boostrom

Annotation: Examines Plato's focus on physical education and music, history of seven liberal arts, and what makes a discipline; all this relates to thinking as a curricular emphasis.

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: Content Selection and Organization, Liberal Education/General Education, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Curriculum History

 

Drost, Walter, H., "Social Efficiency Reexamined: The Dewey-Snedden Controversy," Curriculum Inquiry, 7(Spring, 1977), 19-32., Walter H. Drost

Annotation: Discusses the different positions on vocationalism taken by Dewey and by Snedden.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making,Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Social Efficiency/Control, Curriculum History

 

Gray, Kenneth, "Vocational Education in High School: A Modern Phoenix?" Phi Delta Kappan , 72 (February, 1991), 437-445.*, Kenneth Gray

Annotation: Provides a review of the history of vocational education in the U. S. and of related research on curriculum reform in vocational education.

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: Curriculum History, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Government Role in Educational Research & Development

 

Grubb, W. Norton, and Marvin Lazerson, "Transforming the High School," pp. 29-55 in W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson. The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004., W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson

Annotation: Explores the history of vocationalism in the U.S. high school, discusses its problems, and offers recommendations for its future.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Curriculum History, Curriculum and Politics

 

Kincheloe, Joe L., "Schools Where Ronnie and Brandon Would Have Excelled: A Curriculum Theory of Academic and Vocational Integration," JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 11(Fall, 1995), 61-84. Reprinted pp. 346-363 in William F. Pinar, ed., Contemporary Curriculum Discourses: Twenty Years of JCT. New York: Peter Lang, 1999., Joe L. Kincheloe

Annotation: Argues for a critical postmodern integration of academic and vocational education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Content Selection and Organization

 

Kliebard, Herbert M., Schooled to Work: Vocationalism and the American Curriculum, 1871-1946. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999., Herbert M. Kliebard

Annotation: Traces efforts in U.S. educational history to incorporate into the schools and other social institutions viable curriculum related to work and preparation for work, including manual training, vocational education, CCC and NYA; documents the ideology of vocationalism at work and the political tactics of those for and against vocationalism.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Curriculum History, Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Kliebard, Herbert M., "Vocational Education as Symbolic Action: Connecting Schooling with the Workplace," American Educational Research Journal , 27 (Spring, 1990), 9-26. Reprinted as "Curriculum Policy as Symbolic Action: Connecting Education with the Workplace," pp. 143-158 in Henning Haft and Stephan Hopmann, eds., Case Studies in Curriculum Administrative History. Philadelphia: The Falmer Press, 1990. Reprinted under original title, pp. 183-201 in Herbert M. Kliebard, Forging the American Curriculum: Essays in Curriculum History and Theory. New York: Routledge, 1992.*, Herbert M. Kliebard

Annotation: Traces the politics of the vocational education movement in the early 1900s and the role of the professional educators and others in this movement; sees the work ethic at the core of the movement's symbolic action.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Lewis, Theodore, "Vocational Education as General Education," Curriculum Inquiry, 28(Fall, 1998), 283-309., Theodore Lewis

Annotation: Argues that vocational education should be an integral part of general education; dialogue follows in two articles in same issue by Apple and Lewis.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Liberal Education/General Education

 

Little, Judith Warren, and Susan M. Threatt, "Work on the Margins: Compromises of Purpose and Content in Secondary Schools," Curriculum Inquiry, 24(Fall,1994), 269-292., Judith Warren Little and Susan M. Threatt

Annotation: Shows how vocational education in five California comprehensive high schools is compromised in purpose and content.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Content Selection and Organization

 

McBeath, Clare, ed., Case Studies in TAFE Curriculum . Perth, Australia: West Australian Social Science Education Consortium, 1990., Clare McBeath

Annotation: Reports research methods, curriculum design methods, and methods of developing curriculum materials in Australian Further Education settings.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Comparative Curriculum

 

Valli, Linda, "Becoming Clerical Workers: Business Education and the Culture of Femininity," pp. 213-234 in Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1983., Linda Valli

Annotation: Reports a study of women's experiencing office work.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Vocational vs. Liberal Education

 

Wirth, Arthur, "A Reconstituted General Education: The Integration of the Vocational and the Liberal," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 26(November-December, 1994), 593-600., Arthur Wirth

Annotation: Traces historical background of the attempt to integrate vocational and liberal education in the US.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Vocational vs. Liberal Education

 

Wirth, Arthur G., Productive Work--in Industry and Schools: Becoming Persons Again . Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1983., Arthur G. Wirth

Annotation: Spells out the difference between the vocationalism of early 20th century industrialists and the model of industrial democracy poposed by John Dewey.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies,Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum History

 

Wirt, John G., "A New Federal Law on Vocational Education: Will Reform Follow?" Phi Delta Kappan , 72 (February, 1991), 425-433.*, John G. Wirt

Annotation: Describes new federal legislation based on the integration of academic and vocational education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Content Selection and Organization

 

Young, Michael, "The Return to Subjects: A Sociological Perspective on the UK Coalition Government's Approach to the 14-19 Curriculum," Curriculum Journal, 22(No. 2, 2011), 265-278., Michael Young

Annotation: Critiques the model of curriculum adopted by UK's Secretary of State, Michael Gove, and his failure to give consideration to the 14-19 curriculum as a whole; the traditional vocational curriculum is described and critiqued; supports the Tomlinson Report of 2004.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, School Subjects, Vocational vs. Liberal Education