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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Null, J. Wesley. "Efficiency Jettisoned: Unacknowledged Changes in the Curriculum Thought of John Franklin Bobbitt," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 15(Fall, 1999), 35-42., J. Wesley. Null

Annotation: Points out the changes in Bobbitt's thinking about curriculum from his 1918 book to his 1941 book; corrects a misconception in the history of curriculum thought.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History

 

Nunan, Ted, Countering Educational Design . New York : Nichols,1983., Ted Nunan

Annotation: Raises theoretical and practical issues involved in educational design.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Development Strategies, Philosophical Schools, Ideology and School Knowledge, Teaching/Learning Process

 

Oakes, Jeannie, "Keeping Track, Part I: The Policy and Practice of Curriculum Inequality," Phi Delta Kappan, 68 (September, 1986), 12-17., Jeannie Oakes

Annotation: Reviews arguments regarding tracking based on research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Ideology and School Knowledge

 

Oakes, Jeannie, Adam Gamoran, and Reba N. Page, "Curriculum Differentiation: Opportunities, Outcomes, and Meanings," pp. 570-608 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992., Jeannie Oakes, Adam Gamoran, and Reba N. Page

Annotation: Describes how differentiation is accomplished, its historical and contemporary consequences, issues unresolved, and directions for research.

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

 

Oakes, Jeannie, Sharon E. Hare, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik, "Collaborative Inquiry: A Paradigm in a Cantankerous World," Teachers College Record, 87(Summer, 1986), 545-561., Jeannie Oakes, Sharon E. Hare, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik

Annotation: Explores the use of collaborative action research and illustrates it with a project report done at UCLA with two school districts.

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

 

Oates, Tim, "Could Do Better: Using International Comparisons to Refine the National Curriculum in England," Curriculum Journal, 22(No.2, 2011), 121-150., Tim Oates

Annotation: Critiques the 2007 revision of the National Curriculum in England for incorporating the wrong lessons from international curriculum comparison studies; suggest appropriate lessons that could have been incorporated into it; reviews domestic research that also could have been incorporated and was not; identifies the problems thus created by the National Curriculum; calls for a new consideration in the 2011 revision.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Standards and Testing

 

Oberg, Antoinette, "Curriculum Study and Professional Practice: How Are They Linked?" Journal of Curriculum Studies, 17(April-June, 1985), 207-209., Antoinette Oberg

Annotation: Reports a study of the impact of graduate study on professional practice; lists evaluative questions and data used in the study.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Programs of Study in Curriculum and Instruction, Program Audit/Evaluation

 

Oberg, Antoinette, "Imagining Educational Criticism," Curriculum Inquiry, 12 (Winter, 1982), 385-404., Antoinette Oberg

Annotation: Presents a critique of Eisner's Educational Imagination.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation,Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Program Audit/Evaluation

 

Oberg, Antoinette, "Methods and Meanings in Action Research: The Action Research Journal," Theory Into Practice, 29(Summer, 1990), 214-221., Antoinette Oberg

Annotation: Describes the process of using journals in action research projects involving Canadian teachers.

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, Comparative Curriculum

 

Oberg, Antoinette, "Using Construct Theory as a Basis for Research into Teacher Professional Development," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 19(January-February, 1987), 55-65.*, Antoinette Oberg

Annotation: Reports a case study of one teacher's thinking about her classroom practices; employs Kelly's construct theory.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Knowledge, In-service Teacher Development

 

Oberg, Antoinette A., "Curriculum Decision," pp. 1154-1155 in T. Husen and T. N. Postlethwaite, eds., International Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Pergamon, 1984., Antoinette A. Oberg

Annotation: Presents a brief overview of the nature of curriculum decisions.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation

 

Oberg, Antoinette, and Gail McCutcheon, "Teachers' Experience Doing Action Research," Peabody Journal of Education, 64(Winter, 1987), 116-127., Antoinette Oberg and Gail McCutcheon

Annotation: Reports a study of teachers' experience doing action research.

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

 

Oberg, Antoinette, and Gail McCutcheon, "Teachers' Experience Doing Action Research," Peabody Journal of Education, (Winter, 1987), 116-127.*, Antoinette Oberg and Gail McCutcheon

Annotation: Reports on ways teachers said they did action research projects and the problems and payoffs encountered; presents implications for teaching action research.

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

 

Odiembo, Isaya, "The Loss of Direction in U. S. Education: Who Is to Blame? pp. 119-132 in Joao M. Paraskava and Elizabeth Janson, eds., Voicing the SIlences of Social and Cognitive Justice. Boston: Brill/Sense Publishers, 2018., Isaya Odiembo

Annotation: Analyzes the effects on U. S. public education of the under-funding of schools; of the rise of privatization of schooling; of housing policies, and of a focus on testing of educational outcomes; points to possible remedies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making; Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Currriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum; Curriculum and Politics

 

O'Donaghue, Thomas A., "The Impact of Restructuring on Teachers' Understandings of their Curriculum Work: A Case Study," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 10(Fall,1994), 21-42., Thomas A. O'Donaghue

Annotation: Reports a study of Australian teachers' reactions to curriculum and school restructuring.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Teacher Planning

 

Ogawa, Rodney T., and Betty Malen, "Towards Rigor in Reviews of Multivocal Literatures: Applying the Exploratory Case Study Method," Review of Educational Research , 61 (Fall, 1991), 265-286.*, Rodney T. Ogawa and Betty Malen

Annotation: Describes a method of reviewing literature that bridges inquiry and commentaries or summaries where methodological adequacy is in question; four critiques follow.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Ohanian, Susan, "Goals 2000: What's in a Name?" Phi Delta Kappan, 81 (January, 2000), 345-355.*, Susan Ohanian

Annotation: Argues bluntly and forthrightly against the negative effects that testing is having on students and teachers; analyzes the politics of Goals 2000 legislation.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, 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, Curriculum and Politics, Classroom Observation & Research, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum, Local Control of Schooling

 

O'Hanlon, Christine, ed., Professional Development through Action Research in Educational Settings. Bristol, PA: Falmer Press, 1996., Christine O'Hanlon

Annotation: Reports an international collection of examples of action research in staff development.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparative Curriculum, In-service Teacher Development

 

O'Hanlon, James, "Three Models for the Curriculum Development Process," Curriculum Theory Network, 4(No. 1, 1973-74), 64-71., James O'Hanlon

Annotation: Identifies three models of curriculum development (management, systems, and open-access) and discusses their relationships.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories,Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies

 

Oja, Sharon Nodie, and Gerald J. Pine, "Collaborative Action Research: Teacher's Stages of Development and School Contexts," Peabody Journal of Education, 64(Winter, 1987), 96-115., Sharon Nodie Oja and Gerald J. Pine

Annotation: Describes the work of a project (Action Research on Change in Schools), the third of a series ofn NIE sponsored research on collaborative action research.

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

 

Oja, Sharon Nodie, and Lisa Smulyan, Collaborative Action Research: A Developmental Approach. Philadelphia: Falmer, 1989., Sharon Nodie Oja and Lisa Smulyan

Annotation: Gives a full report of a funded project on collaborative action research (1981-1983); frames the report with historical background on this approach and a discussion of issues faced.

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

 

O'Keeffe, Dennis J., "Curricular Yogis and Cost-Benefit Commissars: Some Thoughts on an Economic Dimension in Curriculum Research and Policy-Making," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 13(July-September, 1981), 207-214., Dennis J. O'Keeffe

Annotation: Argues for research on economic efficiency of the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Defining Curriculum Research Questions, Curriculum Administration, Leadership, Finance, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

O'Keeffe, Dennis J., "Towards a Socio-Economy of the Curriculum," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 9(November, 1977), 101-109., Dennis J. O'Keeffe

Annotation: Argues for the concepts of curricular investment and curricular consumption in concepturalizing curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Administration, Leadership, Finance, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

 

Okshersky, Walter C., "Epistemological and Hermeneutic Conceptions of the Nature of Understanding: The Cases of Paul H. Hirst and Martin Heidegger," Educational Theory, 42(Winter, 1992), 5-23.*, Walter C. Okshersky

Annotation: Critiques Hirst's forms of knowledge in light of Heidegger's conception of "understanding."

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and the Disciplines, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Practical Knowledge

 

Oliva, Peter F., "Supervision and Curriculum Development," pp. 782-800 in Gerald R. Firth and Edward J. Pajak, eds., Handbook of Reseach on School Supervision. New York: Macmillan, 1998., Peter F. Oliva

Annotation: Delineates the tasks of supervisors in curriculum development based on the Oliva model of curriculum development.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Specialists in Schools, Supervision of Instruction

 

Oliver, Albert I., "What is the Meaning of Curriculum?" pp. 3-18 in his Curriculum Improvement: A Guide to Problems, Principles, and Procedures. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. Reprinted 21-31 in James R. Gress, ed., Curriculum: An Introduction to the Field. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1988., Albert I. Oliver

Annotation: Reviews a number of definitions of curriculum being used and cites examples from various sources.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions, 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

 

Oliver, Donald W., and Kathleen Gershman, "Knowing as Participation," JCT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies, 10(Winter, 1992), 69-100., Donald W. Oliver and Kathleen Gershman

Annotation: Explores the relation between the knower and the known in terms of Whitehead's process thought.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Olson, John, "Classroom Knowledge and Curriculum Change: An Introduction," pp. 3-33 in John Olson, ed., Innovation in the Science Curriculum. New York: Nichols Publishing Co., 1982.*, John Olson

Annotation: Explains mechanistic and humanistic views of teaching and research on curriculum change.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Teacher Planning, Science, Practical Knowledge, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Olson, John, ed., Innovation in the Science Curriculum . London and Canberra: Croom Helm, Ltd.; New York: Nichols Publishing Co, 1982., John Olson

Annotation: Consists of five papers on various aspects of curriculum change in science.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Teacher Planning, Science, Practical Knowledge

 

Olson, John, "The Persistence of Technical Rationality," pp. 102-109 in Geoffrey Milburn, Ivor F. Goodson, and Robert J. Clark, eds., Re-Interpreting Curriculum Research: Images and Arguments. Philadelphia: Falmer, 1989., John Olson

Annotation: Argues for going beyond the doctrine of technical rationality in curriculum research and change.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Change
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

 

Olson, John K., "Three Approaches to Curriculum Change: Balancing the Accounts," Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 4(Summer, 1982), 90-95., John K. Olson

Annotation: Draws on McKeon's approaches to the practical (dialectic, logistic, and problematic) to analyze the curriculum change process.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change,Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Practical Knowledge

 

Olson, Margaret R., and Cheryl J. Craig, " 'Small' Stories and Meganarratives: Accountability in Balance," Teachers College Record, 111(February, 2009),, 547-572., Margaret R. Olson and Cheryl J. Craig

Annotation: Reports a small study of two teachers' and their students' responses to accountability policies under which they taught and learned and the challenges they mounted to these policies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum and Politics, Student Assessment, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum

 

O'Malley, Michael P., "Conceptualizing a Critical Pedagogy of Human Soul: Ethnographic Implications for Curriculum Studies," Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 4(Summer, 2007), 84-112., Michael P. O'Malley

Annotation: Reports a study of high school seniors'interior experiences and personal transformation during a 4-day Kairos curriculum group process event; highlights spirituality and soulful aspects of education.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Religious Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Curriculum as Experience, Religious & Private Schooling, Qualitative Research, Values in the Classroom

 

O'Neill, Maureen, "Curricular Reconstruction: Vision of The Social Frontier ," The Educational Forum, 52(Spring, 1988), 223-234.*, Maureen O'Neill

Annotation: Gives the views of curricular reconstruction as provided in The Social Frontier of the 1930s.

Broad Topical Focus: Publication Outlets for Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Change, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Literature of Curriculum

 

Oram, Rex, "An Action Frame of Reference as a Register for Curriculum Discourse," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 10(April-June, 1978), 135-149.*, Rex Oram

Annotation: Discusses curriculum as art in action and conceptualizes it as drama.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses

 

Orfield, Gary, "Choice Theories and the Schools," pp. 37-66 in Gary Orfield and Erica Frankenberg and Associates, Educational Delusions? Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013., Gary Orfield

Annotation: Spells out and compares the different assumptions behind the Market Theory and the Integration Theory of Choice in American education; discusses their effects on reducing inequality; see related article pp. 255-270.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Enrollment Changes-Implications

 

Orfield, Gary, and Mindy L. Kornhaber, eds., Raising Standards or Raising Barriers? Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2001., Gary Orfield and Mindy L. Kornhaber

Annotation: Contains nine reports of studies on effects of using high-stakes tests and provides analyzes of the problems arising from their use.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing

 

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Learning for Tomorrow's World: First Results from PISA 2003. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Education Publications, 2004., Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Annotation: Gives detailed data from 31 countries on mathematics, science, and reading assessments of fifteen year-olds in 2003 and the relationship of other educational factors to these data.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Student Assessment, Mathematics, Reading, Science

 

Ornstein, Allan C., "Curriculum Trends Revisited," Peabody Journal of Education, 69(Summer,1994), 4-20., Allan C. Ornstein

Annotation: Discusses 13 trends within the curriculum.

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

 

Ornstein, Allan C., "The Textbook-Driven Curriculum," Peabody Journal of Education, 69(Spring, 1994), 70-85., Allan C. Ornstein

Annotation: Summarizes characteristics of textbooks and mentions some related research.

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: Textbooks, Materials Development and Evaluation

 

Orpwood, Graham W. F., "Defensible Roles for Researchers in Curriculum Policy - making," The Journal of Educational Thought, 17(December, 1983), 221-229.*, Graham W. F. Orpwood

Annotation: Reports a case study of an Ontario science education research and development project and the guidelines employed in involving researchers in the project.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Evaluation, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Science

 

Orpwood, Graham W. F., "The Reflective Deliberator: A Case Study of Curriculum Policymaking," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 17(July-September, 1985), 293-304.*, Graham W. F. Orpwood

Annotation: Reports a case study of the deliberative process and arguements employed in a science curriculum policy making setting in a local Ontario school board.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Deliberative Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Science, Comparative Curriculum

 

Osberg, Deborah, and Gert Biesta, "Beyond Curriculum: Groundwork for a Non-Instrumental Theory of Eudcation," Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53(1, 2021), 57-70., Deborah Osberg and Gert Biesta

Annotation: Challenges the view that the curriculum should be instrumental to external purposes for education and argues for an emergent view of what the purposes or ends of education should be.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophcal Inquiry--Specuative Essay
Type of Study: Single Sudy
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives

 

Osborn, Robert L., "Radical Inquiry and the Study of Education," Foundational Studies, 7(Winter, 1978), 2-19., Robert L. Osborn

Annotation: Describes and critiques traditional inquiry and radical inquiry in education; draws implications of radical inquiry for educational studies.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General,Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines,Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis,Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes, Knowledge Generation

 

Osborn, Robert L., "The Validation of Private-Subjective Knowledge Claims," The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 1(Summer, 1979), 26-36., Robert L. Osborn

Annotation: Argues the case for deriving knowledge claims from subjective reports by informants.

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

 

Osguthorpe, RIchard D., "On the Possible Forms a Relationship Might Take between the Moral Character of a Teacher and the Moral Development of a Student," Teachers College Record, 111(January, 2009), 1-26., RIchard D. Osguthorpe

Annotation: Analyzes this relationship into three logical forms and elaborates on each and their applications; concludes that none of the three is definitive with respect to whether any such relationships actually exist; the three forms are "direct," "indirect with intervening variables," and "no relationship exists."

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Character Education, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

O'Shea, Joseph A., "A Journey to the Midway: Ralph Winfred Tyler," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 7(Winter, 1985), 447-459., Joseph A. O'Shea

Annotation: Summarizes the work of Tyler at the University of Chicago.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History

 

O'Shea, Joseph A., and George A. Antonelli, "Ralph W. Tyler: Mentor and Force for Excellence," Kappa Delta Pi Record, 22(Fall, 1985), 18-22., Joseph A. O'Shea and George A. Antonelli

Annotation: Reviews Tyler's work as teacher and professor.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors

 

O'Sullivan, Edmund, "The Project and Vision of Transformative Learning," pp. 233-247 in Donna Trueit, William E. Doll, Jr., Hongyu Wang, and William F. Pinar, eds., The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 2003., Edmund O'Sullivan

Annotation: Proposes a curriculum vision centered around transformative learning.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

O'Sullivan, Edmund, Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999., Edmund O'Sullivan

Annotation: Suggests a global curriculum based on ecological and spiritual norms.

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

 

Otto, Wayne, "The Ethnography of Schooling," Journal of Reading, 28(February, 1985), 476-479.*, Wayne Otto

Annotation: Discusses briefly general considerations concerning doing ethnography in schools.

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

 

Overholt, George E., and William M. Stallings, "Ethnographic and Experimental Hypotheses in Educational Research," Educational Researcher, 5(September, 1976), 12-19., George E. Overholt and William M. Stallings

Annotation: Argues for employing hypotheses in ethonographic research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes

 

Overly, Norman U., ed., The Unstudied Curriculum: Its Impact on Children, Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1970., Norman U. Overly

Annotation: Explores the hidden curriculum in its many dimensions; papers are by Jackson, Friedenberg, Biber & Minuchin, Rosenthal, Dreeben, and Kohlberg.

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

 

Owen, John M., Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches, 3rd ed. New York: The Guilford Press, 2007., John M. Owen

Annotation: Provides guidelines for doing evaluative inquiry related to making judgments on program quality.

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

 

Owens, John M., et al., Acquiring Knowledge of Implementation and Change: Essential for Program Evaluators?" Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 15(March, 1994), 273-284., John M. Owens

Annotation: Gives Australian experience on using program evaluation findings and related issues.

Broad Topical Focus: Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Utilization, Program Audit/Evaluation, Comparative Curriculum

 

Pacheco, Jose Augusto, "Curriculum Studies: What Is the Field Today?" Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, 8(Spring, 2012),1-18., Jose Augusto Pacheco

Annotation: Gives detailed analyses of recent decades of work in the field of Curriculum Studies; gives special attention to the work of Apple, Pinar, Goodson, and Young; draws some themes from these analyses.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Professors, Literature of Curriculum

 

Pacheco, Jose Augusto, Whole, Bright, Deep with Understanding: Life Story and Politics of Curriculum Study: In-between William Pinar and Ivor Goodson. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009., Jose Augusto Pacheco

Annotation: Attempts to bring together hundreds of quotations from Pinar's writing and talks with him into a coherent presentation and interpretation of his ideas and his contributions to the field of curriculum studies; also contains a chapter by Moreira treating Pinar and Goodson; concludes with verbatim interviews with Pinar and with Goodson by Pacheco.

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

 

Packer, Steve, "Curriculum Issues in Small States," Prospects, 21(No. 4,1991), 517-526., Steve Packer

Annotation: Reviews issues in curriculum in South Pacific and Caribbean states.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum

 

Padgham, Ronald E., "Correspondences: Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Twentieth Century Art ," The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 1(Winter, 1979), 155-179. Reprinted pp. 359-379 in William F. Pinar, ed., Contenporary Curriculum Discourses. Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick Publishers, 1988., Ronald E. Padgham

Annotation: Examines correspondence between certain elements in contemporary curriculum theory and ideas associated with movements in 20th Century painting.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Aesthetics and Curriculum, Art Education

 

Padgham, Ronald E., "The Holographic Paradigm and Postcritical Reconceptualist Curriculum Theory," The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 5(Summer, 1983), 132-142.*, Ronald E. Padgham

Annotation: Reviews Pribram's neuro-psychological research and its implications for reconceptualized curriculum theory.

Broad Topical Focus: Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Psychology and Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Padilla, Raymond V., "High-Stakes Testing and Educational Accountability as Social Constructions across Cultures," pp. 249-262 in Angela Valenzuela, ed., Leaving Children Behind: How "Texas-Style" Accountability Fails Latino Youth. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005., Raymond V. Padilla

Annotation: Contrasts accountability seen within the culture of measurement and within the culture of engagement.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing, Local Control of Schooling

 

Paechter, Carrie, "Gender, Power, and Curriculum: An Inevitable Interconnection," pp. 75-86 in Alex Moore, ed., Schooling, Society, and Curriculum. New York: Routledge, 2006., Carrie Paechter

Annotation: Argues that power influences the ways curricular experiences are made available to boys and girls.

Broad Topical Focus: 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, Ideology and School Knowledge

 

Paechter, Carrie F., Changing School Subjects: Power, Gender, and Curriculum. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2000., Carrie F. Paechter

Annotation: Reports evidence of the way power and gender differences affect the content, teaching, and learning of certain school subjects (primarily, design and technology, physical education, and music) in English and Welsh secondary schools.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum and Politics, Content Selection and Organization, Comparative Curriculum, School Subjects

 

Pagano, Jo Anne, "The Claim of Philia," pp. 514-530 in William F. Pinar, ed., Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1988., Jo Anne Pagano

Annotation: Challenges a patriarchical conception of authority.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Freedom/Authority and Curriculum

 

Pagano, Jo Anne, "The Curriculum Field: Emergence of a Discipline," Journal of Curriculum Theorzing, 3(Winter, 1981), 171-184. Reprinted pp. 82-105 in William F. Pinar, ed., Contemporary Curriculum Discourses: Twenty Years of JCT. New York: Peter Lang, 1999., Jo Anne Pagano

Annotation: Traces the beginnings of the curriculum field through key faculty at Teachers College (Columbia Universtiy), The University of Chicago, and the Ohio State University.

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

 

Pagano, Jo Anne, and Lawrence Dolan, "Foundations for a Unified Approach to Evaluation Research," Curriculum Inquiry, 10(Winter, 1980), 367-381.*, Jo Anne Pagano and Lawrence Dolan

Annotation: Argues for utilizing qualitative approaches to curriculum evaluation along with scientific or statistical approaches.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Page, Reba, "The Lower-Track Curriculum at a 'Heavenly' High School: 'Cycles of Prejudice'," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 21(May-June, 1989), 197-221., Reba Page

Annotation: Reports an interpretive study of a midwestern high school on the dynamics of lower-track students' relation to the curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Secondary School Curriculum

 

Page, Reba, "Who Systematizes the Systematizers? Policy and Practice Interactions in a Case of State-Level Systemic Reform," Theory into Practice, 34(Winter, 1995), 21-29.*, Reba Page

Annotation: Reports a study of political aspects of a change involving the science curriculum framework in California.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Frameworks, Science, Curriculum Standards and Testing

 

Page, Reba N., "Curriculum Matters," pp. 39-65 in David T. Hansen, ed., John Dewey and Our Educational Prospect: A Critical Engagement with Dewey's "Democracy and Education". Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006., Reba N. Page

Annotation: Examines Dewey's ideas on the parallels between informal and formal educational experiences; points out how the sections of "Democracy and Education" that focus on curriculum can speak to our times as well as Dewey's times.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum as Experience

 

Page, Reba N., "Games of Chance: The Lower-Track Curriculum in a College-Preparatory High School," Curriculum Inquiry, 20(Fall, 1990), 249-281., Reba N. Page

Annotation: Describes a high school lower-track curriculum in which knowledge is trivialized and luck reigns.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum Differentiation, Secondary School Curriculum

 

Page, Reba N., "The Uncertain Value of School Knowledge: Biology at Westridge High," Teachers College Record, 100(Spring, 1999), 554-601., Reba N. Page

Annotation: Uncovers the factors in one high school's science classes that work against high quality science teaching and learning; illustrates curriculum-as-hybrid form of school knowledge.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Ideology and School Knowledge, Science, Teaching/Learning Process

 

Page, Reba, and Linda Valli, "Curriculum Differentiation: An Introduction," pp. 1-15 in Reba Page and Linda Valli, eds., Curriculum Differentiation . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990.*, Reba Page and Linda Valli

Annotation: Introduces a series of interpretive studies of curriculum differentiation and describes this type of study.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation

 

Page, Reba, and Linda Valli, eds., Curriculum Differentiation: Interpretive Studies in U. S. Secondary Schools . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990., Reba Page and Linda Valli

Annotation: Reports interpretive studies of the use of curriculum differentiation and tracking in a number of secondary schools.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Secondary School Curriculum

 

Paisley, William J., and Matilda Butler, eds., Knowledge Utilization Systems in Education . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1983., William J. Paisley and Matilda Butler

Annotation: Collects a series of articles on various knowledge utilization systems employed in education.

Broad Topical Focus: Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Utilization

 

Pajak, Edward, "Cultural Narcissism and Education Reform," Teachers College Record, 113(September, 2011), 2018-2046., Edward Pajak

Annotation: Interprets recent policy reforms in education as being rooted in psychological processes associated with narcissistic parenting wherein the following behavioral patterns prevail: expectations for perfection, grandiose sense of superiority and entitlement, relentless fault-finding, projection of personal fantasies, absence of empathy, preoccupation with control, conditional approval, and well-intentioned view of own motives; suggests alternatives that respect and trust children more.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Motivation, Psychology and Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Pajak, Edward, and Lewis McAfee, "The Principal as School Leader, Curriculum Leader," NASSP Bulletin, 76(November, 1992), 21-30.*, Edward Pajak and Lewis McAfee

Annotation: Reviews the role of principals as curriculum leaders in curriculum development and change.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Administration, Leadership, Finance
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Specialists in Schools, Supervision of Instruction

 

Pajares, M. Frank, "Teachers' Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct," Review of Educational Research, 62(Fall, 1992), 307-332., M. Frank Pajares

Annotation: Reviews the research on the role of beliefs in teaching.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Philosophical Schools, Conceptions of Teaching, Teacher Knowledge

 

Pallas, Aaron M., "Preparing Education Doctoral Students for Epistemological Diversity," Educational Researcher, 30(June/July, 2001), 6-11. See also related article by Harvey Siegel,Educational Researcher, 35(March, 2006), 3-12, Aaron M. Pallas

Annotation: Discusses the implications of epistemological diversity for the curriculum of preparing doctoral students in education in research methodologies and related skills.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Education as a Field of Study, Programs of Study in Curriculum and Instruction, Professionalization in Curriculum, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes, Knowledge Generation

 

Palmer, Joy, ed., Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day. New York: Routledge Falmer, 2001., Joy Palmer

Annotation: Has essays on Rugg, Tyler, Broudy, Schwab, Greene, Goodlad, Freire, P. H. Jackson, Noddings, Eisner, Apple, Giroux, among others.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History

 

Palonsky, Stuart B., 900 Shows a Year: A Look at Teaching from the Teacher's Side of the Desk . New York: Random House, 1986., Stuart B. Palonsky

Annotation: Reports classroom examples of teachers' teaching and their perspectives on their teaching.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teaching/Learning Process, Classroom Observation & Research

 

Pan, M. Ling, Preparing Literature Reviews: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Los Angeles: Pyrczak, 2003., M. Ling Pan

Annotation: Describes all phases of producing and writing literature reviews using over 100 practical guidelines.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Paraskeva, Joao M., Conflicts in Curriculum Theory: Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies. New York: PalgraveMacmillan, 2011., Joao M. Paraskeva

Annotation: Presents critically the major contributions of all the major curriculum theorists from the United States during the twentieth century, noting the conceptual conflicts among their work; raises the issue of the hegemonic influence of this work on curriculum theory around the globe, citing evidence of alternative epistemologies arising in Africa, Asia, and South America; argues for an itinerant curriculum theory that recognizes many different streams of thought.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Comparative Curriculum, Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum History

 

Paraskeva, Joao M., "Epistemicides: Toward and Itinerant Curriculum Theory," pp. 261-289 in Joao M. Paraskeva and Shirley R. Steinberg, eds., Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field. New York: Peter Lang, 2016., Joao M. Paraskeva

Annotation: Explains the author's conception of an Itinerant Curriculum Theory; relates this to several philosophical issues--primarily to issues of epistemology; advocates against a curriculum canon and the exclusion of epistemologies from non-western cultures.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Comparative Curriculum, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge, Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Paraskeva, Joao M.,"To Be Continued," pp. 283-306 In Joao M. Paraskeva, Curriculum and the Generation of Utoopia: Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory. New York: Routledge, 2021., Joao M. Paraskeva

Annotation: Presents a range of arguments for believing Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT) can overcome the beliefs of a flawed Radical Critical Curriculum as applied to education and curriculum; pulls together the characteristics of ICT.

Broad Topical Focus: Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry; Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry - Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Knowledge Generation

 

Paraskeva, Joao M., "What Happens WIth Critical Curriculum Theory?" pp. 114-173 in Joao M. Paraskeva, Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia: Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory. New York: Routledge, 2021., Joao M. Paraskeva

Annotation: Traces the development and decline of the utopian vision of radical critical theory; diagnoses the failures in our times; later in pp. 240-275 explores why in 14 points.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry GuidelineC
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry - Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Knowledge Generation

 

Parish, Ralph, and Richard Arends, "Why Innovative Programs are Discontinued," Educational Leadership, 40(January, 1983), 62-65., Ralph Parish and Richard Arends

Annotation: Reports a study of the topic in several local schools; suggests ways to overcome problems encountered.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation

 

Parker, Laurence, "Critical Race Theory in Education: Possibilities and Problems," pp. 184-198 in Michael Peters, Colin Lankshear, and Mark Olssen, eds., Critical Theory and the Human Condition: Founders and Praxis. New York: Peter Lang, 2003., Laurence Parker

Annotation: Reviews critical race theory as it relates to qualitative inquiry in education and as race-based epistemology; examples of such studies are included.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparative Curriculum

 

Parker, Walter C., "Toward a Powerful Human Rights Curriculum in Schools: Problems and Possibilities," pp. 457-481 in James A. Banks, ed., Citizenship Eucation and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association, 2017., Walter C. Parker

Annotation: Proposes a human rights curriculum for schools that highlights powerful knowledge; analyzes the role of knowledge in any curriculum; calls for curriculum scholars to attend to 'knowledge blindness' in curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Citizenship Education, Content Selection and Orgnaization, Knowledge Utilization

 

Parkinson, Paul, "Political Economy and the NCLB Regime: Accountability, Standards, and HIgh-Stakes Testing," The Educational Forum, 73(No. 1, 2009), 44-57., Paul Parkinson

Annotation: Analyzes the political economy of academic standards, standardized testing, test scores, and accountability within NCLB in terms of Baudrillard's concepts of functional logic of use value, logic of economic exchange, differential logic of sign value, and logic of symbolic exchange.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Student Assessment, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum

 

Parlett, Malcolm, and David Hamilton, "Evaluation as Illumination," pp. 84-101 in David Tawney, ed., Curriculum Evaluation Today: Trends and Implications . London: Macmillan, 1976.*, Malcolm Parlett and David Hamilton

Annotation: Describes illuminative evaluation, its uses, and its problems.

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

 

Parsons, Beverly A., Evaluative Inquiry: Using Evaluation to Promote Student Success. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2001., Beverly A. Parsons

Annotation: Outlines a five-step process for conducting evaluative inquiry research designs focused on student learning.

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, Student Assessment

 

Passow, A. Harry, "Organization and Procedures for Curriculum Improvement," Review of Educational Research, 24(June, 1954), 221-236., A. Harry Passow

Annotation: Reviews studies and programs related to organization and procedures for curriculum improvement as well as related needed research.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation, Curriculum Development Strategies

 

Patterson, Frances R. A., "Building a Conservative Base: Teaching History and Civics in Voucher-Supported Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, 82(October, 2000), 150-155., Frances R. A. Patterson

Annotation: Gives specific examples of the content of Christian School textbooks in social studies from three publishers.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Textbooks, Social Studies, Ideology and School Knowledge

 

Patton, Michael Quinn, "Utilization-Focused Evaluation: A Flexible Approach," pp. 284-291 in his Utilization-Focused Evaluation . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1978.*, Michael Quinn Patton

Annotation: Identifies evaluation questions and methods of research that exemplify utilization-focused evaluation.

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

 

Paul, James L., and Kofi Marfo, "Preparation of Educational Researchers in Philosophical Foundations of Inquiry," Review of Educational Research, 71(Winter, 2001), 525-547., James L. Paul and Kofi Marfo

Annotation: Discusses changes in the philosophy of science and their relation to educational research; discusses needed changes in the education and training of educational researchers.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Professors, Knowledge Generation, Programs of Study in Curriculum and Instruction

 

Payne, David A., "Toward a Characterization of Curriculum Evaluation," pp. 1-14, 333-335 in David A. Payne, ed., Curriculum Evaluation: Commentaries on Purpose, Process, Product. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1974., David A. Payne

Annotation: Describes the changing face of curriculum evaluation, its characteristics--key models--steps, and qualities needed in curriculum evaluators.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Specialists in Schools

 

Pearson, Allen T., "Some Reflections on Curriculum, Knowledge, and the Sociology of the Curriculum," Perspectives on Curriculum (University of Alberta), 3(1974), 87-97., Allen T. Pearson

Annotation: Analyzes several kinds of knowledge and relates these to the new sociology of knowledge for curriculum.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines,Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism,Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation

 

Peatling, John H., "Research and Religious Education," Religious Education, 73(September-October, 1978), S101-S125., John H. Peatling

Annotation: Reviews research from 1920-1977 in religious education, character education, and related topics.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Moral Inquiry, Religious Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Values in the Classroom, Character Education, Religious & Private Schooling

 

Peddiwell, J. Abner, The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, The Classic Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. (1st Edition, 1939), J. Abner Peddiwell

Annotation: Satarizes curricular anachronisms through humorous narrative.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Classics of Curriculum Literature, Criticism of Schooling

 

Pekarsky, Daniel, "Guiding Visions and Educational Planning," pp. 15-29 in Barry M. Franklin, ed., Curriculum and Consequences: Herbert M. Kliebard and the Promise of Schooling. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000., Daniel Pekarsky

Annotation: Critiques Kliebard's assessment of the Tyler rationale and discusses Dewey's critique of using vision statements to guide educational practice.

Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, 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 History, Classics of Curriculum Literature

 

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