Title
Kliebard, Herbert M., "The Mounting Challenge to the Subject Curriculum,'' pp. 200-221, and "The State of School Subjects at Midcentury," pp. 222-249, in Herbert M. Kliebard, The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958, 3rd ed. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Annotation
Outlines the struggle between the "need"/"core" curriculum and the academic subjects curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s; describes the struggles going on within the academic subjects as well for direction of the curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Historical Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Curriculum History, Content Selection and Organization, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
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