CIRS - Curriculum Inquiry and Related Studies in Educational Research: A Searchable Bibliography of Selected Studies is a database of research studies that focuses primarily on curriculum practices and policies in education, inquiry methods useful in studying these topics, and exemplary studies from the published literature on these topics. This bibliography features a search capability by which a user can readily draw out from this list of nearly 4000 citations a list of those citations of interest on a specific topic. It covers much of the 20th century and 21st century literature to 2022. Each citation is accompanied by a brief annotation of its contents and by a series of descriptors by which it can be located in a search of the entire bibliography. To see what appears in a full citation, see a citation in the list below. This list contains all the citations available in CIRS and can be browsed here if desired. Searching by author, topic, or descriptor is possible by use of options listed under Browse CIRS in the column to the left.

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Giroux, Henry A., "Rethinking the Language of Schooling," pp. 1-10 in his Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Argues for new conceptions of teaching and curriculum based on assumptions of critical pedagogy.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Giroux, Henry A., "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History," Educational Theory, 29(Fall, 1979), 263-284. Reprinted pp. 37-62 in his Ideology, Culture, and the Process of Schooling . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Describes how the culture of positivism has influenced the process of schooling and laments the absence of critical reasoning in education.

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, Social Studies, Content Selection and Organization, Ideology and School Knowledge

Giroux, Henry A., "Schooling and the Myth of Objectivity: Stalking the Politics of the Hidden Curriculum," McGill Journal of Education, 16(Fall, 1981), 282-304., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Describes the older approaches to the hidden curriculum and argues that certain elements needed to develop a critical pedagogy are missing.

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: Teaching/Learning Process, Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "Schooling and the Politics of the Hidden Curriculum," pp. 42-71 in his Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1983., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Reprints and expands an article from McGill Journal of Education, Fall, 1981.

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: Hidden Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Process, Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "Schooling as a Form of Cultural Politics: Toward a Pedagogy of and for Difference," pp. 125-151 in Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren, eds., Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Proposes a radical theory of teaching as cultural politics that combines a language of critique and a language of possibility.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Normative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Conceptions of Teaching

Giroux, Henry A., "Solidarity, Ethics, and Possibility in Critical Education," pp. 204-221 in his Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning. Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Critiques books by Eagleton and by Welch and notes their contributions to the discourse on ethics and hope for educational theory and practice.

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: Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "Teacher Education and the Ideology of Social Control," Journal of Education (Boston University), 162(Winter, 1980), 5-27. Reprinted pp. 143-159 in his Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Applies the concepts of power, culture, ideology, and hegemony to the form and content of teacher education; advises the use of theories not based exclusively in prediction and control.

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, Teacher Education, Social Efficiency/Control

Giroux, Henry A., Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Contains 14 essays by the author, most of which previously appeared elsewhere.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals," pp. 121-128 in his Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Describes what teachers would be like if they acted as intellectuals

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "Teachers, Public Life, and Curriculum Reform," Peabody Journal of Education, 69(Spring, 1994), 35-47., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Urges that the curriculum be centered around the lives and power relations of students and teachers within their respective cultural and political contexts.

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: Content Selection and Organization

Giroux, Henry A., "The Conservative Assault on America: Cultural Politics, Education, and the New Authoritarianism," pp. 23-41 in Henry A. Giroux, America on Edge: Henry A. Giroux on Politics, Culture, and Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Illustrates authoritarian policies and actions by the second Bush administration in the area of education and other arenas.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
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, Democratic Education, Government Role in Educational Research & Development

Giroux, Henry A., The Giroux Reader. New York: Paradigm,2006, Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Reprints 13 articles from 1983-2003 covering major areas of scholarship to which the author has contributed.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Conceptions of Teaching, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Giroux, Henry A., "Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: A Critical Analysis," Harvard Educational Review, 53(August, 1983), 257-293., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Analyzes various theories of reproduction and resistance and concludes a new theory is needed for a crtical science of schooling; outlines such a theory in which power, resistance, and human agency can become central elements in a struggle for social practice in schools and society.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Process

Giroux, Henry A., Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition . South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1983., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Contains six essays on this topic based on earlier published articles.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of Cultural Politics," pp. 192-207 in Tne New Henry Giroux Reader: The Role of the Public Intellectual in a TIme of Tyranny. Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press, 2019.", Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Defines neoliberalism and gives examples in U.S. settings; calls for critique and action against this ideology in both education and the public sphere.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Field Other Than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Giroux, Henry A., "Toward a New Public Sphere," pp. 234-242 in his Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition . South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1983., Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Discusses the notion of the public sphere as a place for radical pedagogies to be redefined and restructured.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., "Toward a New Sociology of Curriculum," Educational Leadership, 37(December, 1979), 248-253. Reprinted pp. 11-20 in his Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988.*, Henry A. Giroux

Annotation: Describes the role of critical sociology in curriculum studies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

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

Giroux, Henry A., and Peter McLaren, eds., Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989., Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren

Annotation: Presents essays by several prominent scholars on the theoretical aspects of the topic in which schools may contribute to social transformation; essays are by the editors, Carnoy, Wexler, McLaren, Fine, Feinberg, Giroux, and Giroux & Simon.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., and Peter McLaren, "Reproducing Reproduction: The Politics of Tracking,'' pp. 186-195 in Henry A. Giroux, ed., Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren

Annotation: Discusses Oakes studies of tracking and their lack of political problematization.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., and Peter McLaren, "Teacher Education and the Politics of Democratic Reform," pp. 158-176 in Henry A. Giroux, ed., Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren

Annotation: Argues that teacher education institutions need to be reconceived as public spheres engaging in social and political debate; pleads for citizenship education in teacher education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum and Politics, Teacher Education, Citizenship Education

Giroux, Henry A., and Anthony N. Penna, "Social Education in the Classroom: The Dynamics of the Hidden Curriculum," pp. 21-42 in Henry A. Giroux, ed., Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux and Anthony N. Penna

Annotation: Explores the authoritarian effects of the hidden curriculum and how it contrasts with democratic processes; reprinted from Spring, 1979, issue of Theory and Research in Social Education.

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, Hidden Curriculum, Social Studies

Giroux, Henry A., David Shumway, Paul Smith, and James Sosnoski, "The Need for Cultural Studies," pp. 143-157 in Henry A. Giroux, ed., Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning . Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux, David Shumway, Paul Smith, and James Sosnoski

Annotation: Argues that cultural studies are needed to engage critically social and political issues rooted in instrumental rationality.

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: Social Studies, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum and Politics

Giroux, Henry A., and Roger Simon, "Curriculum Study and Cultural Politics," pp. 129-142 in Henry A. Giroux, ed., Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning. Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1988., Henry A. Giroux and Roger Simon

Annotation: Argues for a new approach to curriculum study based on critical and political perspectives.

Broad Topical Focus: Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Programs of Study in Curriculum and Instruction

Giroux, Henry A., and Roger Simon, "Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy: Everyday Life as a Basis for Curriculum Knowledge," Boston University Journal of Education, 170(No. 1, 1988). Reprinted pp. 236-252 in Henry A. Giroux and Peter McLaren, eds., Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989., Henry A. Giroux and Roger Simon

Annotation: Proposes to critique popular culture as the material of the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Normative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Conceptions of Teaching

Gitlin, Andrew, et al. Teacher's Voices for School Change: An Introduction to Educative Research. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993., Andrew Gitlin

Annotation: Describes educative teacher research through stories of teachers' lives and school histories.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Conceptions of Teaching

Gitlin, Andrew, "School Structure and Teachers' Work," pp. 193-212 in Michael W. Apple and Lois Weis, eds., Ideology and Practice in Schooling. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1983., Andrew Gitlin

Annotation: Shows how the structure of schooling affected teachers' work in an IGE school reform.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Gitlin, Andrew David, "Educative Research, Voice, and School Change," Harvard Educational Review, 60(November, 1990), 443-466., Andrew David Gitlin

Annotation: Proposes and describes a dialogical approach to research that develops voice as a form of political protest; illustrated by a specific study.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research, Curriculum and Politics

Gitlin, Andrew, and Stanley Goldstein, "A Dialogical Approach to Understanding: Horizontal Evaluation," Educational Theory, 37(Winter, 1987), 17-27.*, Andrew Gitlin and Stanley Goldstein

Annotation: Describes a method for understanding teachers' discourse that interprets current practice in terms of past events.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Discourse Analysis, Teacher Evaluation, Knowledge Generation

Gitlin, Andrew, and Frank Margouis, "The Political Aspects of Reform: Teacher Resistence as Good Sense," American Journal of Education, 103 (August, 1995), 377-405.*, Andrew Gitlin and Frank Margouis

Annotation: Reviews literature on change and school culture; reports a study of teacher resistence to change in one elementary school.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Teacher Knowledge

Glanz, Jeffrey, Action Research: An Educator's Guide to School Improvement. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon, 1998., Jeffrey Glanz

Annotation: Presents practical procedures for conducting action research projects on topics of concern to educational leadership, principals, and curriculum directors.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Specialists in Schools

Glanz, Jeffrey, "Review of 'The Changing Curriculum' (1937)," Educational Studies, 26(Winter, 1995), 326-334., Jeffrey Glanz

Annotation: Traces the origin and activities of the Society for Curriculum Study (and their publication Curriculum Journal) and the Department of Supervisors and Directors of Instruction (and their publication Educational Method) from the 1920s through their joint publication in 1937 of The Changing Curriculum to their merger in 1943 becoming the Department of Supervision and Curriculum Development (in 1946-ASCD).

Broad Topical Focus: Publication Outlets for Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: American/International Curriculum Organizations, Professionalization in Curriculum, Curriculum History

Glaser, Robert, "Components of a Psychology of Instruction: Toward a Science of Design," Review of Educational Research, 46(Winter, 1976), 1-24., Robert Glaser

Annotation: Elaborates a theory of instructional design.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Conceptions of Teaching, Teaching/Learning Process, Psychology and Curriculum, Materials Development and Evaluation, Teacher Planning

Glasman, Naftaly, Robert H. Koff, and Heather Spiers, "Preface," Review of Educational Research, 54(Winter, 1984), 461-471., Naftaly Glasman, Robert H. Koff, and Heather Spiers

Annotation: Describes the intersection of disciplinary inquiry and the problems of practice as interdisciplinary in character with unique kinds of questions to be answered; states four phases of the process: question development, theme definition, sharing on the topic, and presenting the papers that follow this article.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

Glass, Bentley, "The BSCS Retrospect and Prospect," The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Journal, 1(November, 1978), 2-4., Bentley Glass

Annotation: Gives a brief history of BSCS biology.

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: Science, Curriculum History, Curriculum Development Strategies

Glass, Gene V, "Notes on Theory, Research, and Policy," pp. 281-287 in Gene V Glass, Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2008., Gene V. Glass

Annotation: Gives the author's view of theory and conceptual frameworks in educational research and discusses the limited role educational research plays in educational policy-making.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Utilization

Glass, Gene V., "The Wisdom of Scientific Inquiry on Education," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 9(No. 1, 1972), 3-18., Gene V. Glass

Annotation: Discusses the value of evaluation studies in providing helpful bases for improving educational programs.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Change, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Glass, Gene V., and Blaine R. Worthen, "Educational Evaluation and Research: Similarities and Differences," Curriculum Theory Network, 8 + 9(1972), 149-165.*, Gene V. Glass and Blaine R. Worthen

Annotation: Contrasts research and evaluation as modes of inquiry.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Glass, Ronald David, "On Paulo Freire's Philosophy of Praxis and the Foundations of Liberation Education," Educational Researcher, 30(March, 2001), 15-25., Ronald David Glass

Annotation: Presents a thorough summary and critique of Freire's philosophy of education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Philosophical Schools, Teaching/Learning Process

Glatthorn, Alan A., "Curriculum Alignment Revisited," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 15(Fall, 1999), 26-34., Alan A. Glatthorn

Annotation: Provides a broadened view of curriculum alignment in terms of eight concepts of curriculum--hidden, excluded, recommended, written, supported, tested, taught, and learned; related article by W. G. Wraga precedes this article.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Program Audit/Evaluation

Glatthorn, Alan A., and Arthur Wells Foshay, "Curriculum Integration," pp. 1221-1223 in T. Husen and T. N. Postlethwaite, eds., International Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Pergamon, 1984., Alan A. Glatthorn and Arthur Wells Foshay

Annotation: Discusses types of integrated curriculum and arguments for and against them.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Integration

Glatthorn, Alan A., and Jerry Jailall, "Curriculum for the New Millennium," pp. 97-121 in Ronald S. Brandt, ed., Education in a New Era. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000., Alan A. Glatthorn and Jerry Jailall

Annotation: Reviews the strengths of various curriculum orientations over the last 50 years and offers an outline of a new curriculum for the future.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum History

Gleeson, Denis, "Curriculum Development and Social Change: Towards a Reappraisal of Teacher Action," pp. 193-203 in John Eggleston, ed., Teacher Decision-Making in the Classroom-A Collection of Papers . Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979., Denis Gleeson

Annotation: Examines critically the teacher's role in curriculum development and change.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies

Glesne, Corrine, Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction, 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1999., Corrine Glesne

Annotation: Covers all facets of conducting and writing up ethnographic and related forms of inquiry.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

Glesne, Corrine E., "Yet Another Role? The Teacher as Researcher," Action in Teacher Education , 13 (Spring, 1991), 7-13., Corrine E. Glesne

Annotation: Gives methods for doing teacher research.

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

Goertz, Margaret, and Mark Duffy, "Mapping the Landscape of High-Stakes Testing and Accountability Programs," Theroy into Practice, 42(Winter,2003), 4-11., Margaret Goertz and Mark Duffy

Annotation: Describes states' testing and accountability policies and the effect of No Child Left Behind Act on them.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Survey
Narrow Topic: Student Assessment, Program Audit/Evaluation

Goertz, Margaret E., "Policy Analysis: Studying Policy Implementation," pp. 701-710 in Judith L. Green, Gregory Camilli, and Patricia B. Elmore, eds., Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006., Margaret E. Goertz

Annotation: Describes the policy analysis research approach; gives a case study of New Jersey whole school reform.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Goetz, Judith Preissle, and Margaret Diane LeCompte, Ethnography and Qualitative Design in Educational Research . New York: Academic Press, 1984., Judith Preissle Goetz and Margaret Diane LeCompte

Annotation: Gives a comprehensive view of ethnographic research design and study in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research

Goff, Katherine E., "Chaos, Collaboration, and Curriculum: A Deliberative Process," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 14(Fall, 1998), 29-42.*, Katherine E. Goff

Annotation: Creates a basis for the curriculum development process in chaos theory.

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 Deliberation, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Golby, Mike, "Practice and Theory," pp. 214-236 in Martin Lawn and Len Barton, eds., Rethinking Curriculum Studies: A Radical Approach. New York City: Halsted Press, 1981., Mike Golby

Annotation: Distinguishes theory from practice and points out dimensions of the former in relation to curriculum design and development (his 1976 book); shows institutional issues by reporting on the work in Timerton, England.

Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice,Curriculum Development, Organization, Design,Curriculum Conceptions and Theories,Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation, Comparative Curriculum

Goldberg, Mark F., "A Portrait of John Goodlad," Educational Leadership, 52(March, 1995), 82-85., Mark F. Goldberg

Annotation: Provides a review of John Goodlad's professional career and his contributions to curriculum and educational reform.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History

Goldman, Ralph F., William H. Weber, and Harold J. Noah, "Some Economic Models of Curriculum Structure," Teachers College Record, 73(December, 1971), 285-303., Ralph F. Goldman, William H. Weber, and Harold J. Noah

Annotation: Shows several economic models using curricular elements among others.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Administration, Leadership, Finance
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation

Goodlad, John I., "Coda: The Conceptual System for Curriculum Revisited," pp. 343-364 in John I. Goodlad, ed., Curriculum Inquiry: The Study of Curriculum Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill, l979.*, John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Updates his l966 conceptualization of curriculum with additional decision levels and value contexts.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Deliberation

Goodlad, John I., "Curriculum as a Field of Study," pp. 1141-1144 in T. Husen and T. N. Postlethwaite, eds., International Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Pergamon, 1984., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Sums up curriculum as a field of study and its limited contributions to date.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Goodlad, John I., "Curriculum as a Field of Study," pp. 1262-1267 in Torsten Husen and Thomas N. Postlethwaite, eds., The International Encyclopedia of Education, 2d ed. New York: Pergamon, 1994.*, John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Identifies the scholars and trends that have contributed to the development of curriculum as a field of study.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History

Goodlad, John I., "Curriculum Making as a Sociopolitical Process," pp. 9-23 in M. Frances Klein, ed., The Politics of Curriculum Decision-Making: Issues in Centralizing the Curriculum . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Discusses the sociopolitical aspects of curriculum decision-making and comments on the other chapters in the book.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, 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 and Politics

Goodlad, John I., "Curriculum: State of the Field," Review of Educational Research, 39(June, 1969), 367-375., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Reviews the RER reviews of curriculum research for June 1969.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Goodlad, John I., "Curriculum: The State of the Field," Review of Educational Research, 30(June, 1960), 185-198., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Summarizes curriculum decision making at societal, institutional, and instructional levels.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Development Strategies

Goodlad, John I., et al, "What We Don't Know About Schooling," Phi Delta Kappan, 61(May, 1980), 591-606., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Introduces a series of articles about what we don't know about teaching various school subjects; identifies leading questions that should be answered.

Broad Topical Focus: Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Environment, Curriculum as Experience, School Subjects

Goodlad, John I., The Dynamics of Educational Change: Toward Responsive Schools . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Presents a study of school change across numerous districts.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies

Goodlad, John I., "The Wonderful World of Curriculum Inquiry," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 6 (Winter, 1991), 161-166., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Urges curriculum inquiry be grounded in the real world of educational institutions and do studies in natural settings.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Goodlad, John I., "Toward Schools Commonly Good,'" pp. 303-330 in his Romances with Schools: A Life of Education. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Makes recommendations for retro-fitting structure of schooling; proposes a curriculum structured around the characteristics, problems, and issues of the world's various domains rather than around the disciplines; all this discussed in the context of reflections by the author on his life as teacher and educator.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Democratic Education, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Content Selection and Organization

Goodlad, John I., "What Some Schools and Classrooms Teach," Educational Leadership, 40(April, 1983), 8-19. Reprinted pp. 337-356 in James R. Gress, ed., Curriculum: An Introduction to the Field, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1988., John I. Goodlad

Annotation: Reports a study of what schools teach in various subject areas; assesses the findings critically.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Survey
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization

Goodlad, John I., M. Frances Klein, and Kenneth A. Tye, "The Domains of Curriculum and Their Study," pp. 43-76 in John I. Goodlad and Associates, Curriculum Inquiry: The Study of Curriculum Practice . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.*, John I. Goodlad, M. Frances Klein, and Kenneth A. Tye

Annotation: Describes the process and substantive domains of curriculum inquiry and gives an example of studying them.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

Goodlad, John I., and Maurice N. Richter, Jr., "Decisions and Levels of Decision-Making: Processes and Data Sources," pp. 506-516 in Arno A. Bellack and Herbert M. Kliebard, eds., Curriculum and Evaluation. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing, 1977., John I. Goodlad and Maurice N. Richter Jr.

Annotation: Analyzes curriculum decision-making into several levels: instructional, institutional, societal, and ideological.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes,Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation

Goodlad, John I., and Maurice N. Richter, Jr., "The Development of a Conceptual System for Dealing with Problems of Curriculum and Instruction," 1966, ERIC Document No. ED 010 064.*, John I. Goodlad and Maurice N. Richter Jr.

Annotation: Posits a conceptualization of curriculum decision making.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Deliberation

Goodlad, John I., Kenneth A. Sirotnik, and Bette C. Overman, "An Overview of 'A Study of Schooling'," Phi Delta Kappan, 61(November, 1979), 174-178.*, John I. Goodlad, Kenneth A. Sirotnik, and Bette C. Overman

Annotation: Gives the research questions and methods used, the data sources and domains sought, and the overall purpose of Goodlad's "A Study of Schooling."

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Defining Curriculum Research Questions, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Survey
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Classics of Curriculum Literature

Goodlad, John I., and Zhixin Su, "Organization of the Curriculum," pp. 327-344 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, l992., John I. Goodlad and Zhixin Su

Annotation: Summarizes options and issues related to various modes of organizing the curriculum; gives sources and patterns of curriculum organization.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization

Goodman, Jesse, "Change without Difference: School Restructuring in Historical Perspective," Harvard Educational Review, 65(Spring, 1995), 1-29. *, Jesse Goodman

Annotation: Argues that current third-wave school restructuring does not depart from the prevailing underlying values of schools: social functionalism, efficiency and productivity, individualism, and expertism; advocates instead reform based on alterntive values that the author articulates.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
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

Goodman, Jesse, Elementary Schooling for Critical Deomocray. New York: SUNY Press, 1992., Jesse Goodman

Annotation: Tells the story of Harmony Elementary School, Bloomington, Indiana, and its approach to democratic education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Democratic Education, Elementary School Curriculum

Goodman, Jesse, Reforming Schools: Working Within a Progressive Tradition during Conservative Times. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006., Jesse Goodman

Annotation: Portrays work undertaken in reforming schools during th first twelve years of the existence of the Harmony Education Center's outreach services as described by its organizer and leader.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Local Control of Schooling, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Democratic Education, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Qualitative Research

Goodman, Jesse, "Teaching Preservice Teachers a Critical Approach to Curriculum Design: A Descriptive Account," Curriculum Inquiry, 16(Summer, 1986), 179-201., Jesse Goodman

Annotation: Describes a five phase critical approach to curriculum design taught to preservice teachers in a methods course; set in a treatment of the literature and practice of progressive and critical pedagogy; describes the benefits of the course.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, 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, Teacher Education, Social Studies

Goodman, Jesse, "Towards a Discourse of Imagery: Critical Curriculum Theorizing," The Educational Forum, 56(Spring, 1992), 269-289.*, Jesse Goodman

Annotation: Contrasts discourse of criticism, discourse of possibility, and discourse of critical imagery and argues that advantage of critical imagery.

Broad Topical Focus: Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

Goodson, Ivor , "From Mystification to Markets: The Evolution of Curriculum History and LIfe History," pp. 13-26 in Gary McCulloch, Ivor Goodson, and Mariano Gonzalez-Delgado, eds., Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History. New York: Routledge, 2020., Ivor Goodson

Annotation: Summarizes studies in curriculum history from US and UK including subject histories and histories of the work of teachers.

Broad Topical Focus: Curricuum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hiistorical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum, Knowledge Generation

Goodson, Ivor, "On Understanding Curriculum: The Alienation of Curriculum Theory," Curriculum Perspectives, 7(October, 1987), 41-47.*, Ivor Goodson

Annotation: Addresses the discontinuity between curriculum theory and curriculum practice.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor, School Subjects and Curriculum Change: Case Studies in Curriculum History. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Philadeplia: Falmer, 1987., Ivor Goodson

Annotation: Discusses the history of several school subjects in the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Curriculum History

Goodson, Ivor, "Studying School Subjects," Curriculum Perspectives, 12 (April, 1992), 23-26., Ivor Goodson

Annotation: Reviews the historical work done in studying the origins and development of school subjects in U. S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

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: School Subjects, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor, "Subjects for Study: Aspects of a Social History of Curriculum," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 15(October-December, 1983), 391-408. A later version appears as "Subjects for Study," pp. 343-367 in Ivor Goodson, ed., Social Histories of the Secondary Curriculum: Subjects for Study. London: Falmer Press, 1985., Ivor Goodson

Annotation: Analyzes some aspects of histories of curriculum subjects.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum History, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Secondary School Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor F., "Becoming a School Subject," pp. 160-183 in his The Making of Curriculum: Collected Essays. London: The Falmer Press, 1988. Also in 2nd ed., 1995. A version appears pp. 52-68 in Ivor F. Goodson, Learning, Curriculum, and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson. London: Routledge, 2005., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Discusses the establishment and promotion of geography as a school subject in the United Kingdom.

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, Curriculum and Politics, School Subjects

Goodson, Ivor F., " 'Chariots of Fire': Etymologies, Epistemologies, and the Emergence of Curriculum," pp. 13-25 in Geoffrey Milburn, Ivor F. Goodson, and Robert J. Clark, eds., Re-Interpreting Curriculum Research: Images and Arguments. Philadelphia: Falmer, 1989. Reprinted pp.25-38 in Ivor F. Goodson, The Making of Curriculum: Collected Essays, 2nd ed. London: Falmer, 1995. Also reprinted pp. 42-51 in Ivor F. Goodson, Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson. London: Routledge, 2005., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Traces the rise of curriculum in British institutions from 1500 to the present.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum History

Goodson, Ivor F., ed., International Perspectives on Curriculum History . London: Croom Helm, 1986., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Gives accounts of curriculum history in eleven countries in various subject areas.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines,Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor F., ed., Social Histories of the Secondary Curriculum: Subjects for Study . London: Falmer, 1985., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Presents studies of the histories of several secondary subjects.

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: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor F., "Long Waves of Educational Reform," pp. 105-129 in Ivor F. Goodson, Learning, Curriculum, and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson. London: Routledge, 2005., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Reports findings of the "Change over Time" project that examined historical waves of change in United States and Canadian schools with respect to restrictive and/or progressive reforms.

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

Goodson, Ivor F.,"On Curriculum Form," Sociology of Education, 65(January, 1992), 66-75. Reprinted pp. 69-80 in Ivor F. Goodson, Learning, Curriculum, and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson. London: Routledge, 2005., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Traces the structuration of science as a school subject for "higher order" and for "lower order" students in the United Kingdom.

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, Curriculum and Politics, School Subjects, Science

Goodson, Ivor F., "Patterns of Curriculum Change," pp. 231-241 in Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Michael Fullan, and David Hopkins, eds., International Handbook of Educational Change, Part One. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Describes the relation between political power and the evolution of school subjects.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, 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, Comparative Curriculum, School Subjects

Goodson, Ivor F., Studying Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Collects previous work by the author that relates to the history of school subjects in Canada and Britain from a social constructivist perspective.

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: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum History

Goodson, Ivor F., "Studying Curriculum: Towards a Social Constructionist Perspective," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 22(July-August, 1990), 299-312.* Reprinted pp. 133-148 in Ivor F. Goodson, Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson. London: Routledge, 2005., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Makes the case for linking studies of teachers' life histories and of the context of prescriptions for and interactions within the practice of curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Knowledge Generation

Goodson, Ivor F., The Changing Curriculum : Studies in Social Construction. New York: Peter Lang, 1997., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Presents 10 previously published works by the author on the evolution of curriculum with attention to power, class, and justice.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum History

Goodson, Ivor F., The Making of Curriculum: Collected Essays . Philadelphia: Falmer, 1988. (2nd ed., 1995), Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Contains essays covering case studies of state schooling in England between 1965-1980; the second edition has a new concluding chapter.

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, Comparative Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor F., "The Making of Curriculum," pp. 184-196 in THe Making of Curriculum: Colleted Essays. London: Falmer Press, 1988. Also in 2nd ed., 1995. Reprinted pp. 81-90 in Ivor F. Goodson, Learning, Curriculum, and Life Politics: The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson. London: Routledge, 2005., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Shows how historical studies of curriculum use both internal and external factors in explaining curriculum changes as political processes; examples are from the United Kingdom.

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, Curriculum History, Curriculum and Politics

Goodson, Ivor F., "Towards Curriculum History," pp. 1-8 in Ivor F. Goodson, ed., Social Histories of the Secondary Curriculum: Subjects for Study . London: Falmer, 1985., Ivor F. Goodson

Annotation: Argues for the study of the history of school subjects in the secondary curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines,Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum History

Goodson, Ivor F., with Christopher J. Anstead, "Behind the Schoolhouse Door: The Historical Study of Curriculum, " pp. 51-61; 127-129 in Ivor F. Goodson, ed., Studying Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.*, Ivor F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead

Annotation: Presents the case for doing historical inquiry on actual school curriculum, delineates principles and processes for such inquiry, and offers a brief example.

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, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor F., and Stephen J. Ball, eds., Defining the Curriculum: Histories and Ethnographies . London: Falmer, 1984., Ivor F. Goodson and Stephen J. Ball

Annotation: Contains articles on several subjects within the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum

Goodson, Ivor F., and Colin Marsh, Studying School Subjects: A Guide. Bristol, PA: Falmer Press, 1996., Ivor F. Goodson and Colin Marsh

Annotation: Provides an introductory overview of the study of school subjects as history, the value of such research, and their useful implications for today.

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

Gordon, David, "Education as Text: The Varieties of Educational Hiddeness," Curriculum Inquiry, 18(Winter, 1988), 425-449., David Gordon

Annotation: Explores the hidden meaning in texts, drawing on Ricoeur and Geertz.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Hermeneutic Inquiry, Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum

Gordon, David, "Hidden Curriculum," pp. 484-487 in Lawrence J. Saha, ed., International Encyclopedia of Sociology of Education. Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1997.*, David Gordon

Annotation: Defines and analyzes hidden curriculum; interprets its hermenuetic nature.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum

Gordon, David, "Rules and the Effectiveness of the Hidden Curriculum," Journal of Philosophy of Education, 17(No. 2, 1983), 207-218.*, David Gordon

Annotation: Addresses the hidden curriculum in terms of two theorist's views of rules and law.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Moral Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum

Gordon, David, "The Concept of the Hidden Curriculum," Journal of Philosophy of Education, 16(No. 2, 1982), 187-198.*, David Gordon

Annotation: Reviews definitions of the hidden curriculum, identifies three related conceptual problems, and pleads for a tighter use of the concept in the radical literature.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum

Gordon, David, "The Image of Science, Technological Consciousness, and the Hidden Curriculum," Curriculum Inquiry, 14(Winter, 1984), 367-400., David Gordon

Annotation: Describes images of science transmitted by the hidden curriculum based on analysis of 57 lessons; includes the category system used in the analysis.

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, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

Gordon, David, "The Rebirth of the Hidden Curriculum: Phlogiston as Priestley Might Explain it to Lavoisier," Curriculum Inquiry, 18(Winter, 1988), 465-470. *, David Gordon

Annotation: Responds to Lakomski's analysis of the hidden curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making,Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum