Source Discipline - Curriculum
Annotation: Argues against conservative perspective on a national curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum and Politics, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Curriculum Standards and Testing
Apple, Michael W., "The Politics of School Knowledge," The Review of Education, 5(Winter, 1979), 1-14., Michael W. Apple
Annotation: Presents a review of Whitty & Young's Explorations in the Politics of School Knowledge.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum and Politics
Apple, Michael W., "The Politics of Teachers and Texts," pp. 3-28 in Michael W. Apple, Teachers and Texts. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986., Michael W. Apple
Annotation: Explains the research approach informing the author's study of teachers and texts; focuses on class, race, gender.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Textbooks, Ideology and School Knowledge
Annotation: Analyzes issues in evaluation and urges institutional evaluation rather than evaluation of learning.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Social Efficiency/Control
Annotation: Explores the relation between student deviance and knowledge production in schools.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Knowledge Generation, Psychology and Curriculum
Annotation: Provides a tribute to Macdonald's contributions to the curriculum field.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Critical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Apple, Michael W., "The Text and Cultural Politics," Educational Researcher, 21(October, 1992), 4-11.*, Michael W. Apple
Annotation: Analyzes the presence of official knowledge in textbooks, the political and cultural forces that effect textbook content, and how readers respond to such texts.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Textbooks, Ideology and School Knowledge
Apple, Michael W., "What Correspondence Theories of the Hidden Curriculum Miss," The Review of Education, 5(Spring, 1979), 101-112., Michael W. Apple
Annotation: Reviews Paul Willis' Learning to Labor, 1977.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Hidden Curriculum
Apple, Michael W., "Work, Gender, and Teaching," Teachers College Record, 84(Spring, 1983), 611-628., Michael W. Apple
Annotation: Discusses teachers as state functionaries, the intensification of teaching resulting from greater state control, and gendered resistance by teachers.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Authority of Teacher, Conceptions of Teaching
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
Annotation: Poses a way of evaluating curriculum that takes into account social, economic, and ideological purposes.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum
Apple, Michael W., and Kristen L Buras, eds., The Subaltern Speak: Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles. New York: Routledge, 2006., Michael W. Apple and Kristen L. Buras
Annotation: Offers perspectives on U. S. education from non-dominant and oppressed groups such as those oriented around the Core Knowledge Movement, home schooling, vouchers for African-Americans,indigenous and Chicano youth, the racially and sexually abused, those claiming academic freedom in the corporate academy,and those excluded by global cosmopolitanism, with additional examples from Taiwan and Brazil; includes analytic introductory and closing chapters.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Apple, Michael W., and Barry W. Franklin, "Curricular History and Social Control," pp. 176-201 in Carl A. Grant, ed., Community Participation in Education . Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1979., Michael W. Apple and Barry W. Franklin
Annotation: Traces the effort to base curriculum on the concept of social contract.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry,Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge
Annotation: Explores the social meaning of school experience in a kindergarten class related to play, work, etc.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum, Ideology and School Knowledge, Early Childhood Curriculum
Apple, Michael W., and Anita Oliver, "Becoming Right: Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements," Teachers College Record, 97(Spring, 1996), 419-445; reprinted pp. 42-67 in Michael W. Apple, Cultural Politics and Education. New York: Teachers College Record, 1996., Michael W. Apple and Anita Oliver
Annotation: Traces the way the Right has developed it's stance toward certain educational policies and provides an illustration from a local school system.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Local Control of Schooling, Curriculum and Politics
Apple, Michael W., and Joel Taxel, "Power and Curriculum Content," pp. 122-133 in Carl A. Grant, ed., Preparing for Reflective Teaching . Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1984., Michael W. Apple and Joel Taxel
Annotation: Does an analysis of the relation between curriculum content and power groups.
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: Curriculum and Politics, Content Selection and Organization, Ideology and School Knowledge
Apple, Michael W., and Kenneth Teitelbaum, "Are Teachers Losing Control of their Skills and Curriculum?" Journal of Curriculum Studies, 18(April-June, 1986), 177-184., Michael W. Apple and Kenneth Teitelbaum
Annotation: Shows how teachers are losing control of their skills and the curriculum to outside authority.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Local Control of Schooling, Conceptions of Teaching, Authority of Teacher
Apple, Michael W., and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983., Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis
Annotation: Presents eleven articles reporting studies of ideology and pracitices in schooling.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge
Apple, Michael W., and Lois Weis, "Ideology and Practice in Schooling: A Political and Conceptual Introduction," pp. 3-33 in Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1983., Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis
Annotation: Relates what schools do to aspects of the sociology of school knowledge; analyzes the dynamics of ideology; calls for research at the level of practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge
Apple, Michael W., and Lois Weis, "Seeing Education Relationally: The Stratification of Culture and People in the Sociology of School Knowledge," Journal of Education (Boston University), 168(No. 1, 1986), 2-34., Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis
Annotation: Gives an extended analysis of the topic.
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
Apple, Michael W., and Philip Wexler, "Cultural Capital and Educational Transmissions: An Essay on Basil Bernstein, Class, Codes and Control, Vol. III: Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions," Educational Theory, 28(Winter, 1978), 34-44., Michael W. Apple and Philip Wexler
Annotation: Critiques and comments on the content of the Bernstein book.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories,Curriculum Development, Organization, Design,Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences,Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay,Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Content Selection and Organization, Comparative Curriculum
Archambault, Reginald D., "The Philosophical Bases of the Experience Curriculum," Harvard Educational Review, 26(1956), 273-275., Reginald D. Archambault
Annotation: Outlines the basic tenets of the experience curriculum movement, including its goals and objectives as they relate to Dewey's view of ends, the role of interests and needs in curriculum design, and various limitations of the experience curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form,Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Philosophical Schools
Archbald, Douglas A., and Andrew C. Porter, "Curriculum Control and Teacher's Perceptions of Autonomy and Satisfaction," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 16(Spring, 1994), 21-39., Douglas A. Archbald and Andrew C. Porter
Annotation: Reports teachers' perceptions of various curriculum control policy instruments and their impact.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Authority of Teacher, Local Control of Schooling
Annotation: Idenitifies the similarities and differences between curriculum analysis and curriculum evaluation regarding purposes, method, addressees, the task, and the role--both analytically and historically.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Describes curriculum analysis procedures and cites schemes available for use in this task.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Materials Development and Evaluation
Annotation: Reports the development and use of a curriculum materials analysis instrument (SALTAL), a copy of which is included.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Materials Development and Evaluation
Armbuster, Bonnie B., and Thomas H. Anderson, "Structures of Explanations in History Textbooks or So What if Governor Stanford Missed the Spike and Hit the Rail?" Journal of Curriculum Studies, 16(April-June, 1984), 181-194., Bonnie B. Armbuster and Thomas H. Anderson
Annotation: Examines explanations of historical events in textbooks in terms of four frame questions (goal, plan, action, outcome) in order to locate weaknesses that may hinder learning.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Materials Development and Evaluation, Social Studies, Textbooks
Armstrong, Jenny R., "Educational Process Model for Use in Research," Journal of Experimental Education, 39(Fall, 1970), 2-7., Jenny R. Armstrong
Annotation: Sets up a model of input components and combination interactions for use in doing research in curriculum and instruction.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Argues that the arts contribute to acquiring knowledge, not just science and mathematics, not just through intellectual analysis but also through intuitive perception.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Psychology and Curriculum, Art Education, Curriculum and the Disciplines, Humanities, Content Selection and Organization
Arnot, M., and Geoff Whitty, "School Texts, the Hidden Curriculum and the Curriculum-in-use: A British Review of Recent American Contributions to the Sociology of the Curriculum," Discourse, 3(No. 1, 1982), 1-21., M. Arnot and Geoff Whitty
Annotation: Comments on scholarship in the U. S. on these topics.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Textbooks, Hidden Curriculum, Comparative Curriculum, Ideology and School Knowledge
Aronowitz, Stanley, "Preface," pp. 1-4 in Henry A. Giroux, ed., Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981., Stanley Aronowitz
Annotation: Traces the development of critical research in American education, including Giroux's contribution.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines,Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Knowledge Generation
Aronowitz, Stanley, and Henry A. Giroux, "Curriculum Theory and the Language of Possibility," pp. 139-162 in Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux, Education Under Siege . South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1985.*, Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux
Annotation: Advocates linking cultural politics and the language of critique and possibility to curriculum theory.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Curriculum and Politics
Aschner, Mary Jane McCue, "Meaning and Thinking," pp. 74-92 in James B. Macdonald and Robert R. Leeper, eds., Language and Meaning . Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1966., Mary Jane McCue Aschner
Annotation: Describes two types of meaning--attached and "taken-in" meaning; relates this to recent studies of classroom teaching.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Psychology and Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Process
Assor, Ari, and David Gordon, "The Implicit Learning Theory of Hidden-Curriculum Research," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 19(July-August, 1987), 329-339., Ari Assor and David Gordon
Annotation: Explains the effects of learning theory on our view of the hidden curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Psychology and Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum
Annotation: Asserts that laws are not the way to get educational change.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Deliberative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Local Control of Schooling
Atkin, J. Myron, "The Government in the Classroom," Daedulus , 109(Summer, 1980), 85-97., J. Myron Atkin
Annotation: Traces the involvement of government in curriculum and teaching and observes some of the negative effects of this involvement.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Local Control of Schooling, Government Role in Educational Research & Development
Atkin, J. Myron, and Ernest R. House, "The Federal Role in Curriculum Development: 1950-1980," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 3(September-October, 1981), 5-36.*, J. Myron Atkin and Ernest R. House
Annotation: Traces the history of U. S. government support for curriculum development between 1950 and 1980.
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 and Politics, Government Role in Educational Research & Development, Curriculum History
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
Annotation: Presents descriptions and transcripts of curriculum deliberations by four faculty members and analyzes their conceptions of curriculum as revealed in their deliberations.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Deliberative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
Annotation: Interprets the deliberation process engaged in by a college faculty group in General Studies.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Higher Education Curriculum, Liberal Education/General Education
Annotation: Discusses the hermeneutical approach to curriculum theory.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Annotation: Gives a case study of curriculum decision making by the English faculty in the Community College of Philadelphia; the analysis of the deliberation is done in terms of three different frameworks.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Higher Education Curriculum
Annotation: Examines research paradigms based on realist, relativist, and hermeneutic traditions as they relate to their potential use in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes
Annotation: Traces the intellectual contributions to the instrumentalist values underlying the dominant curriculum discourse of the 20th century; notes that both the Didaktik and American curriculum traditions fall within this instrumentalist ideology; quotes dozens of thinkers including Descarte, Weber, Calvin, Locke, Kant, and Tyler.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Social Efficiency/Control, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Annotation: Reports a metsynthesis of 49 qualitative studies using template analysis to examine effects of high-stakes testing on subject matter content alignment/contraction, changes in form of knowledge (fractured/integrated), and pedagogic change (student/teacher-centered).
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Qualitative Research, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Reviews history of Taylorism in curriculum theory and its current manifestation; describes the effects of contemporary high-stakes testing (recontextualization and commoditization) as attempts of policy-publics to control curriculum and teaching from a distance for political purposes.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing, Curriculum History, Social Efficiency/Control, Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Local Control of Schooling
Annotation: Describes standpoint theory as applied to curriculum and curriculum inquiry.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Demonstrates the ways high-stakes testing creates, by design, currricular inequality (through content, form, pedagogic, bureaucratic, and discursive control); discusses the NCLB policy on testing; draws on critical social theory and Bernstein for analytic tools.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing
Au, Wayne, Anthony L. Brown, and Delores Calderon, Reclaiming Multicultural Roots of U. S. Curriculum: Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2016., Wayne Au, Anthony L. Brown, and Delores Calderon
Annotation: Gives evidence of the omission during the early 20th century of attention by both schools and the curriculum scholars community to the realities of Native American, Asian American, Mexican American, and African American histories.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge, Materials Development and Evaluation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Awbrey, Maureen Jessen, "A Teacher's Action Research Study of Writing in the Kindergarten: Accepting the Natural Expression of Children," Peabody Journal of Education, 64(Winter, 1987), 33-64., Maureen Jessen Awbrey
Annotation: Gives an example of action research on the topic.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research, Teaching/Learning Process, Early Childhood Curriculum
Annotation: Reports an empirical study of the effects of ethnic and gender differences on course taking in science and the resulting inequalities.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Comparative Curriculum, Science
Annotation: Reports a study in Israel of student achievement inequality (by gender, soico-economic level, ability) when comparing students in subject differentiated curricula; concludes this type of diffentiation does not reduce educational inequalities; suggests policy implications.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Comparative Curriculum, Student Assessment, Enrollment Changes-Implications
Annotation: Argues for a dynamic view of curriculum that is responsive to six questions posed by the author and which liberates it from focusing solely on knowledge, skills, test scores,and classroom management; examples are given.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Freedom/Authority and Curriculum
Ayers, William, "The Shifting Ground of Curriculum Thought and Everyday Practice," Theory into Practice, 31(Summer, 1992), 259-263., William Ayers
Annotation: Describes changes in Chicago city schools that empowers participants in policy and practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Knowledge, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Deliberation
Ayers,William, Therese Quinn, David O. Stovall, and Libby Scheiern, "Teachers' Experience of Curriculum, Policy, Pedagogy, and Situation," pp. 306-326 in F. Michael Connelly, Ming Fang He, and JoAnn Phillion, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008., William Ayers, Therese Quinn, David O. Stovall, and Libby Scheiern
Annotation: Cites research on the topic classified by various research approaches; major categories include policy and curriculum, curriculum and pedagogy, and situations of resistance and justice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Knowledge, Practical Knowledge, Curriculum and Politics, Teaching/Learning Process, Values in the Classroom
Bagley, William Chandler. Education and Emergent Man . London: Thomas Nelson, 1934., William Chandler Bagley
Annotation: Poses a normative vision to which education can lead.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature
Bai, Heesoon, and Avraham Cohen, "Breathing Qi (Ch'i), Following Dao(Tao): Transforming This Violence-Ridden World," pp. 35-54 in Claudia Eppert and Hongyu Wang, eds., Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern Thought, Educational Insights. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008., Heesoon Bai and Avraham Cohen
Annotation: Explains these concepts from Chinese philosophy and argues for curriculum based on these concepts as an antidote to Western dualism; stresses empmowerment through criticism, creativity, and ethics.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Baker, Bernadette, ed., New Curriculum History. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers,2009., Bernadette Baker
Annotation: Contains a set of studies using or about using various forms of historical inquiry in curriculum by scholars from several different countries.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Describes characteristics and trends in using curriculum packages.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Materials Development and Evaluation
Annotation: Summarizes procedures used in curriculum development projects using a six-stage model (formulation, specification, development, field testing, revision cycles, and implementation).
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Reports the meetings of organizations involved since 1991 in national policy debates over curriculum standards assessments and the different perspectives of assessment experts and politicians.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Defines a generic design (structure, functions, evaluation) for an assessment system and indicates what new technologies can assist with each element.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Student Assessment, Evaluation of Instruction, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Media and Computers in Curriculum Development, Program Audit/Evaluation
Baker, Eva L., and Robert L. Linn, "Validity Issues for Accountability Systems," pp. 47-72 in Susan H. Fuhrman and Richard F. Elmore, eds., Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004., Eva L. Baker and Robert L. Linn
Annotation: Formulates a theory of action within which testing and accountability policies lie; sets standards for accountability systems, testing, stakes, public reporting, and evaluation; followed by an article outlining three accountability models by Linn.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing, Student Assessment, Evaluation of Instruction
Baker, Robert, "Curriculum Evaluation," Review of Educational Research, 39(June, 1969), 339-358., Robert Baker
Annotation: Reviews the conceptual and methodological issues in curriculum evaluation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Baker, Robert L., and Richard E. Schutz, "An Overview of Instructional Product Development," pp. xv-xxiii in Robert L. Baker and Richard C. Schutz, eds., Instructional Product Development . New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971., Robert L. Baker and Richard E. Schutz
Annotation: Gives an introduction to the volume and to elements in development of instructional products.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Materials Development and Evaluation
Baker, Robert L., and Richard E. Schutz, eds., Instructional Product Research . New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972., Robert L. Baker and Richard E. Schutz
Annotation: Provides treatments of several aspects of instructional product research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Development as Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Materials Development and Evaluation
Ball, Deborah Loewenberg, and David K. Cohen, "Reform by the Book: What Is - or Might Be - the Role of Curriculum Materials in Teacher Learning and Instructional Reform?" Educational Researcher, 25 (December, 1996), 6-8; 14. *, Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen
Annotation: Summarizes what is known from research on curriculum materials and identifies how curriculum materials could be designed so they serve better both students and teachers.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Materials Development and Evaluation, Textbooks, Teaching/Learning Process
Ball, Deborah Loewenberg, and Fancesca M. Foryani, "What Makes Education Research 'Educational'?" Educational Researcher, 36(December, 2007), 529-540., Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Fancesca M. Foryani
Annotation: Posits a formulation of multiple interactions named "the instructional dynamic" and argues that research in colleges of education should relate in some manner to these kinds of interactions at the heart of educational practice and policy; gives examples.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Practical Knowledge
Annotation: Traces very briefly the history of curricula in Hungary from 1000 A.D. to recent times.
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: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum History
Annotation: Gives the history of curriculum in Soviet Russia.
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: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum History
Annotation: Sums up the author's ideas on educating citizens in a diverse multicultural world.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, 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: Citizenship Education, Democratic Education
Annotation: Describes five components of multicultural Education: content integration, knowledge construction process, prejudice reduction, equity pedagogy, and improving school culture and social structure.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Multicultural Education, Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Contrasts cultural pluralist and assimilationist ideologies and supports a combination pluralist-assimilationist position for curriculum reform.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Frameworks, Citizenship Education, Content Selection and Organization, Ideology and School Knowledge, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Presents and describes a typology of knowledge for multicultural education: personal/cultural, popular, mainstream academic, transformative academic, and school knowledge.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Multicultural Education, Content Selection and Organization
Banks, Philip, "Herbert Spencer: Victorian Curriculum Theorist," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 12(April-June, 1980), 123-135., Philip Banks
Annotation: Reviews British philosopher Spencer's views of the theory of knowledge and curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Knowledge Generation
Barab, Sasha A., and Wolff-Michael Roth, "Curriculum-Based Ecosystems: Supporting Knowing from an Ecological Perspective," Educational Researcher, 35(June/July, 2006), 3-13., Sasha A. Barab and Wolff-Michael Roth
Annotation: Offers an ecological focal point for curriculum design using affordance networks, effectivity sets, and life-worlds.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Frameworks, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum as Experience, Curriculum as Environment, Teaching/Learning Process, Practical Knowledge
Barnes, Barry, Interests and the Growth of Knowledge . Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977., Barry Barnes
Annotation: Opens up problems of knowledge, ideology, and power.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, 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, Curriculum and Politics, Knowledge Generation
Barnette, J. Jackson, "Naturalistic Study of Project Interagency Linkages: The Linkage Case Study," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 5( Winter, 1983), 473-483., J. Jackson Barnette
Annotation: Provides a case study of an evaluation project of interagency linkages.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Utilization
Annotation: Presents an aesthetic criticism of a North Carolina high school arts program.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Secondary School Curriculum, Art Education
Barone, Thomas, Jake Burdick, and C. Centae Richards, "Thinking and Rethinking Elliot Eisner," Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 9(No. 1, 2012), 16-17., Thomas Barone, Jake Burdick, and C. Centae Richards
Annotation: Introduces a series of ten short commentaries on the contributions of Elliot Eisner.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Professors
Annotation: Describes the crafting of stories, autobiography and biography, and educational criticisms as forms of aesthetic inquiry.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Explains the application of the traditions of the "New Journalism" to curriculum experienced by students with examples from works of literary non-fiction.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry, Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience
Annotation: Envisions a kind of curriculum theory that portrays what really happens in a setting and provides critiques to the practitioners.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Barone, Thomas E., "On Equality, Visibility, and the Fine Arts Program in a Black Elementary School," Curriculum Inquiry, 17(Winter, 1987), 421-446., Thomas E. Barone
Annotation: Presents an educational criticism of an elementary arts program.
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: Art Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Barone, Thomas E., "Research Out of the Shadows: A Reply to Rist," Curriculum Inquiry, 17(Winter, 1987), 453-463., Thomas E. Barone
Annotation: Responds to a critic of his article (pp.421-446) that appears just prior to this response.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Barone, Thomas E., "The Meadowhurst Experience: Phases in the Process of Educational Criticism," The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 4(Winter, 1982), 156-170., Thomas E. Barone
Annotation: Illustrates the processes in educational criticism from a visit to Meadowhurst School.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, 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: Knowledge Generation, Classroom Observation & Research
Annotation: Consists of imaginary dialogue between representatives of three approaches to literary analysis of curriculum; an article follows responding to this article.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Barone, Tom, Aesthetics, Politics, and Educational Inquiry: Essays and Examples. New York: Peter Lang, 2000., Tom Barone
Annotation: Reprints 14 essays by the author (organized around the influences of Eisner, Dewey, Rorty, Sarte, and Bakhtin) describing and demonstrating the use of narrative inquiry in education.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and Politics, Aesthetics and Curriculum
Annotation: Critiques the politics of current corporatist and exclusionist curriculum policies; advocates the use of the arts in challenging this political spectacle.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Barritt, Loren S., "Human Science and the Human Image," Phenomenology +Pedagogy, 4(No. 3, 1986), 14-21.*, Loren S. Barritt
Annotation: Argues the case for human understanding of human experience through the tradition of human sciences rather than social sciences.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Barrow, Robin, Common Sense and the Curriculum . London: Allen & Unwin, 1976., Robin Barrow
Annotation: Analyzes and critiques alternative approaches to curriculum content selection and offers his own proposal.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design,Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Notes the value issues involved in doing curriculum theorizing about practical curriculum questions.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Annotation: Critiques prevailing views of curriculum theory, the curriculum itself, and curriculum development.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Curriculum Development Strategies, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Implementation
Barrow, Robin, "Over the Top: A Misuse of Philosophical Techniques?" Interchange, 19(Summer, 1988), 59-63.*, Robin Barrow
Annotation: Sets forth agreements and disagreements with Jickling (1988) on his analysis and criticism of Tanner and Tanner (1980) and their views on the Tyler Rationale.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies
Annotation: Gives a response to a critque of his book.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum
Barrow, Robin, "Skill Talk," Journal of Philosophy of Education, 21(No. 2, 1987), 187-195.*, Robin Barrow
Annotation: Analyzes the term "skill" and its various uses in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives
Annotation: Critiques the dominant paradigm in curriculum research and suggests alternatives.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General,Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Makes the case for using conceptual analysis as a part of all research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Bartlett, Leo, "Issues in the Construction of an Historical Narrative," Curriculum Perspectives, 7(May, 1987), 1-6., Leo Bartlett
Annotation: Describes the methodology used in an historical interpretation of an Australian school and discusses related issues.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparative Curriculum
Barton, Len, Roland Meighan, and Stephen Walker, eds., Schooling, Ideology, and the Curriculum . Barcombe, England: Falmer, 1980., Len Barton, Roland Meighan, and Stephen Walker
Annotation: Contains 5 papers that reappraise correspondence theory and 5 papers that discuss the relation between power and ideology.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum and Politics