Citations from 1998
Robinson, Viviane M. J., "Methodology and the Reseachr-Practice Gap," Educational Researcher, 27(January-February, 1998), 17-26.*, Viviane M. J. Robinson
Annotation: Proposes a problem-based methodology of research in which practices are treated as solutions to practical problems and explained by inquiry into the problem-solving processes that gave rise to them.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Linkage
Levin, Benjamin, "The Educational Requirement for Democracy," Curriculum Inquiry, 28(Spring, 1998), 57-79., Benjamin Levin
Annotation: Explores the provision of democractic ideals in the curriculum through democratic experiences for students.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Democratic Education, Curriculum as Experience
Annotation: Presents a case study of an effort by Governor Allen and his appointed Board of Educatiion to control the debate on Virginia's Standards of Learning (1995) through both discursive and structural methods and to obtain an ideologically and epistemologically conservative curriculum change.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Curriculum Deliberation
Jennings, John H., Why National Standards and Tests? Politics and the Quest for Better Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998., John H. Jennings
Annotation: Provides the legislative history on national standards and testing by the U. S. Congress 1989-1997.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Standards and Testing
Annotation: Reports an empirical study of the use of three alternative forms of a curriculum guide (in Israeli classes in Bible) to determine how teachers distinguish the approaches and what differences they see in autonomy allowed them.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Comparative Curriculum, Teacher Knowledge, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum
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
Gabella, Marcy Singer, "Formal Fascinations and Nagging Excerpts: The Challenge of the Arts to Curriculum and Inquiry, " Curriculum Inquiry, 28(Spring, 1998), 27-56.*, Marcy Singer Gabella
Annotation: Illustrates with examples the use of the arts as a mode of curriculum inquiry.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Tanner, Daniel, "The Social Consequences of Bad Research," Phi Delta Kappan, 79(January, 1998), 344-349.*, Daniel Tanner
Annotation: Critiques selected research studies in education and discusses the consequences of doing research badly.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Practical Knowledge, Knowledge Utilization
Annotation: Provides a former student's view of Joseph Schwab's approach to teaching and curriculum.
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 Professors, Curriculum History
Pinar, William F., ed., The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I Am...Not Yet.' Bristol, PA: Falmer Press, 1998., William F. Pinar
Annotation: Presents 22 writers on the life and work of Maxine Greene as they explore her writings, its themes, the influences on her thought, and her influence on several domains of educational thought and practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Willinsky, John, Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1998., John Willinsky
Annotation: Critiques the imperialist perspectives on which much current curricula are based; examines school texts that reveal colonialist themes in history, geography, science, language, and literature.
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, Textbooks, Content Selection and Organization
Johnson, Aostre N., "Meditations on James Macdonald's Transcendental Developmental Ideology of Education," JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 14(Spring, 1998), 37-43., Aostre N. Johnson
Annotation: Relates Macdonald's views with those of 13th century mystic, Rumi.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Phillips, D. C., "John Dewey's The Child and the Curriculum: A Century Later," The Elementary School Journal, 98(May, 1998), 403-414., D. C. Phillips
Annotation: Offers a 100th anniversary review and critique of Dewey's essay.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Teaching/Learning Process, Curriculum History
Clandinin, D. Jean, and F. Michael Connelly, "Stories to Live By: Narrative Understandings of School Reform," Curriculum Inquiry, 28(Summer, 1998), 149-164.*, D. Jean Clandinin and F. Michael Connelly
Annotation: Describes the development of the authors' views of narrative as a way of conceptualizing teacher's knowledge; identifies missing elements in prevailing views of school reform as seen by teachers; and conceptualizes a new story that accounts for these elements.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Knowledge
Henderson, James G., Janice Hutchison, and Charlene Newman, "Maxine Greene and the Current/Future Democratization of Curriculum Studies," pp. 190-212 in William F. Pinar, ed., The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I Am... Not Yet.' Bristol, PA: The Falmer Press, 1998.*, James G. Henderson, Janice Hutchison, and Charlene Newman
Annotation: Points out Maxine Greene's contributions to the field of Curriculum Studies by tracing five themes; also, shows how her work critiques the field and raises new questions for its future.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Defining Curriculum Research Questions, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Howe, Kenneth R., "The Interpretive Turn and the New Debate in Education," Educational Researcher, 27(November, 1998), 13-20.*, Kenneth R. Howe
Annotation: Distinguishes among postmodernist and transformationist forms of interpretivism in the context of educational research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Contrasts presumed U.S. curriculum model of early 20th century (bureaucratic) with that of real schools revealed by historical studies (local, practical); discusses prospect for re-imaging U. S. curriculum development.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Classics of Curriculum Literature, Curriculum Development Strategies, Comparative Curriculum
Annotation: Describes and explains the use of template analysis in thematic coding of qualitative data; illustrated by reference to a study done by the author on managing mental health care.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis, Phenomenological Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Qualitative Research, Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Contrasts conceptual analysis with critical theory as approaches to research in curriculum theory; urges that the former take on the perspective of the latter; shows how this combination can be useful in curriculum practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Critical Inquiry, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Utilization
Young, Michael F. D., The Curriculum of the Future: Form the 'New Sociology of Education' to a Critical Theory of Learning. Bristol, PA: The Falmer Press, 1998., Michael F. D. Young
Annotation: Updates twelve of the author's earlier articles on the sociology of knowledge, the 14-19 academic/vocational curriculum in England and Wales, and the nature of the curriculum in the learning society.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparative Curriculum
Pinar, William F., ed., Curriculum: Toward New Identitiies. New York: Garland, 1998., William F. Pinar
Annotation: Includes 17 essays, edited and introduced by William Pinar, that exhibit cutting-edge theory in Curriculum Studies as developed after the comprehensive 1995 volume (Understanding Curriculum, by Pinar, et al.).
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Kridel, Craig, ed., Writing Educational Biography: Explorations in Qualitative Research. Levttown, PA: Garland, 1998., Craig Kridel
Annotation: Explores the experiences of educational biographers as they write biographies.
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, Qualitative Research
Foshay, Arthur Wellesley, "Problem Solving and the Arts," Journal of Curriclulum and Supervision, 13(Summer, 1998), 328-338.*, Arthur Wellesley Foshay
Annotation: Shows how problem solving objectives can be integrated into the arts.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Art Education, Curriculum Integration
Annotation: Traces value perspectives adhered to by five researchers on race and discusses methodological issues and a typology of types of researchers involved in social action based on research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Citizenship Education
Annotation: Critiques the reconceptualist movement in curriculum with respect to its ahistoricism and its ideology.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Critiques the designation of "exemplary" given to several programs such as "Success for All" based on methodological issues in supporting research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Program Audit/Evaluation
Annotation: Characterizes the relation of the Progessive Education Association to the Eight-Year Study and illustrates some of the ways the thirty schools in the study developed and organized their curricula; draws four lessons on initiating change in education.
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, Classics of Curriculum Literature
Annotation: Addresses how religious differences can be adjudicated through dialogue based on six basic principles.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes
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 and Politics, Curriculum Deliberation, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum
Annotation: Contrasts in an extended treatment the conceptions of the German tradition of Didaktik and U. S. conceptions of curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Definitions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Raizen, Senta A., "Standards for Science Education," Teachers College Record, 100(Fall, 1998), 66-121., Senta A. Raizen
Annotation: Analyzes the concept of standards and its use and purposes (pp. 72-75) as a preamble to a review of the various science standards developed by AAAS, NSTA, NRC, etc.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing, Science, Content Selection and Organization
Jackson, Philip W., "John Dewey's School and Society Revisited," The Elementary School Journal, 98(May, 1998), 415-426., Philip W. Jackson
Annotation: Offers a 100th anniversary review and critique of Dewey's essays in School and Society.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
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
Annotation: Traces experience of the author in school-based curriculum development internationally from 1959-1998 from his work in the United Kingdom and Australia, theUniversity of London and Deakin University, and in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies, Comparative Curriculum
Lipka, Richard P., John H. Lounsbury, Conrad F. Toepfer, Jr., Gordon F. Vars, Samuel P. Allessi, Jr., and Craig Kridel, The Eight-Year Study Revisited: Lessons from the Past for the Present. Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association, 1998., Richard P. Lipka, John H. Lounsbury, Conrad F. Toepfer Jr., Gordon F. Vars, Samuel P. Allessi Jr., and Craig Kridel
Annotation: Provides excerpts from and commentary on the 5-volume Report of the Eight-Year Study published in 1942; draws lessons for today's schools with special attention to implications for middle school education.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Middle School Curriculum
Torres, Carlos Alberto, "Interview with Henry A. Giroux," pp. 129-157 in Carlos Alberto Torres, Education, Power, and Personal Biography: Dialogues with Critical Educators. New York: Routledge, 1998., Carlos Alberto Torres
Annotation: Offers personal refections by Giroux on his own life and professional work.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, 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: Curriculum Professors, Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Kysilka, Marcella L., "Quality Research in Curriculum and Teaching," The Educational Forum, 62(Winter, 1998), 146-152.*, Marcella L. Kysilka
Annotation: Makes recommendations for improving quality of research in curriculum dissertations and articles prepared for publication in areas such as conceptualizing the research, using appropriate methodology, composing the report, and other technical matters.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Publication Outlets for Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Literature of Curriculum
Blacker, David, "Fanaticism and Schooling in the Democratic State," American Journal of Education, 106(February, 1998), 241-272., David Blacker
Annotation: Defines a circumscribed view of fanaticismn and argues for excluding groups defined by fanaticism from participating in democractic school policy making.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge
Annotation: Defines standards used by reform elites (effectiveness, popularity, fidelity) and by educational practitioners (adaptiveness, longevity), applies them to Effective Schools reform, and explores implications of these different standards to other reforms.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Standards and Testing
Constas, Mark A., "The Changing Nature of Educational Research and a Critique of Postmodernism," Educational Researcher, 27(March, 1998), 26-33.*, Mark A. Constas
Annotation: Explains postmodernism and its influence on educational research; discusses three problems it poses--distinction, expistemological genre, and procedural infomality; critiques its reluctance to arrive at conclusions, to suggest practical implications, and to fall victim to its own desire to free inquiry from oppressive conditions.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Lewis, Theodore, "Vocational Education as General Education," Curriculum Inquiry, 28(Fall, 1998), 283-309., Theodore Lewis
Annotation: Argues that vocational education should be an integral part of general education; dialogue follows in two articles in same issue by Apple and Lewis.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Liberal Education/General Education
Annotation: Responds to and critiques the article by Lewis in the same issue of Curriculum Inquiry.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Vocational vs. Liberal Education, Liberal Education/General Education
Annotation: 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
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
Cohen, David K., "Dewey's Problem," The Elementary School Journal, 98(May, 1998). 427-446., David K. Cohen
Annotation: Offers a 100th anniversary review and critique of Dewey's essays in School and Society.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
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
Cooper, Harris, Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998., Harris Cooper
Annotation: Presents systematic techniques for preparing research syntheses of quantitative research studies.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Citations from 1997
Waks, Leonard J., "The Project Method in Postindustrial Education," Journal of Curriculum Studies," 29(July-August, 1997), 391-406.*, Leonard J. Waks
Annotation: Reviews historical conceptions of project-based curricula as offerred by Dewey and Kilpatrick and notes critiques of these by Charters and Bode; suggest starting points for new formulations.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Teaching/Learning Process
Feinberg, Walter, "Education Manifestos and the New Fundamentalism," Educational Researcher, 26(November, 1997), 27-35.*, Walter Feinberg
Annotation: Presents a thorough critique of E. D. Hirsch's The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (1996), including his views on progessive education, his emphasis on facts and subject -specific skills, and his drive to control the curriculum in his Core Knowledge Curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Freedom/Authority and Curriculum
Annotation: Analyzes three forms of researcher-practitioner cooperation: data-extraction agreements, clinical partnerships, and co-learning agreements.
Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Research
Kennedy, Mary M., "The Connection between Research and Practice," Educational Researcher, 26(October, 1997), 4-12., Mary M. Kennedy
Annotation: Reviews four hypotheses concerned with the lack of connection between educational research and practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Utilization
Thomas, Gary, "What's the Use of Theory?" Harvard Educational Review, 67 (Spring, 1997), 75-104.*, Gary Thomas
Annotation: Analyzes the uses of the term theory within educational inquiry and argues against its use in this context.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Tanner, Laurel N., Dewey's Laboratory School: Lessons for Today. New York: Teachers College Press. 1997., Laurel N. Tanner
Annotation: Presents a thorough-going history of Dewey's Laboratory School at the University of Chicago and draws lessons for today from this history.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Seixas, Peter, and Gabriella Minnes Brandes, "A Workshop in Uncertainty: 'New Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences' as a Basis for Professional and Curriculum Development," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 13(Fall, 1997), 56-69., Peter Seixas and Gabriella Minnes Brandes
Annotation: Reports processes utilized by ACLS groups in determining curriculum at university level.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Higher Education Curriculum, Comparative Curriculum
Carson, Terrance R., and Dennis J. Sumara, eds., Action Research as a Living Practice. New York: Peter Lang, 1997., Terrance R. Carson and Dennis J. Sumara
Annotation: Contains 22 accounts of action research as efforts to alter perception and action in practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry, Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Knowledge Generation, Teaching/Learning Process
Hlebowitsh, Peter S., "The Search for the Curriculum Field," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(September-October, 1997), 507-511.*, Peter S. Hlebowitsh
Annotation: Makes a case for theorists in the field of curriculum to come together to find common ground, following a period of schism.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists
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, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Literature of Curriculum, Classics of Curriculum Literature
Annotation: Critiques the use of disciplinary knowledge as basis for school subjects; suggests alternatives such as problem-solving experiences.
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: Curriculum and the Disciplines, Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives
Stengel, Barbara S., " 'Academic Discipline' and 'School Subject': Contestable Curriculum Concepts," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(September-October, 1997), 585-602.*, Barbara S. Stengel
Annotation: Examines five views of the relation between the concepts of academic discipline and of school subject; gives implications for curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and the Disciplines, School Subjects, Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Makes a plea to preserve documents--even ephemeral work quickly replaced by later versions via electronic techniques--for the sake of future historians of education.
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
Greene, Maxine, "Metaphors and Multiples: Representation, the Arts, and History," Phi Delta Kappan, 78 (January, 1997), 387-394., Maxine Greene
Annotation: Sets forth the distinction between Enlightment (singular) and multiple views of knowledge and illustrates these representations in the arts and history.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Philosophical Schools, Curriculum and the Disciplines, Knowledge Generation, Art Education, Social Studies
Hertzog, Nancy B., "Creation of a School and Curriculum Reform," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(March-April, 1997), 209-231., Nancy B. Hertzog
Annotation: Presents a case study of the creation of a new private U. S. school, the stakeholders efforts to determine a non-traditional curriculum, and the nature of that curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Case Study
Narrow Topic: Religious & Private Schooling
Helsby, Gill, and Gary McCulloch, eds., Teachers and the National Curriculum. London: Cassell, 1997., Gill Helsby and Gary McCulloch
Annotation: Gives responses to the National Curriculum in England and Wales by teachers at various levels and in various subject fields.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Government Role in Educational Research & Development, Comparative Curriculum
Blades, David W., Procedures of Power and Curriculum Change: Focault and the Quest for Possibilities in Science Education. New York: Peter Lang, 1997., David W. Blades
Annotation: Portrays the personal involvement of the author in changes in Alberta's science programs and shows how Foucault's views on power assist in revealing procedures of power in curriculum change; allegory in Ch. 5 captures the experience.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Science, Comparative Curriculum, Curriculum and Politics
Lather, Patti, "To Be of Use: The Work of Reviewing," Review of Educational Research, 69(Spring, 1997), 2-7., Patti Lather
Annotation: Discusses what we can know from a review, who benefits from a review, and actions implied by a review.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Popkewitz, Thomas S., "A Changing Terrain of Knowledge and Power: A Social Epistemology of Educational Research," Educational Researcher, 26(December, 1997), 18-29., Thomas S. Popkewitz
Annotation: Uses analytical and historical strategies to address the social context of educational research (space, time, and change) and its influence on the production of knowledge in the service of the democratic ideal.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Foshay, Arthur Wellesley, "The Social Self and the Human Side of Science," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 12 (Spring, 1997), 246-255., Arthur Wellesley Foshay
Annotation: Relates the socializing purposes of education to the content of science; a sub-topic within the author's 1987 curriculum matrix.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Science, Curriculum Integration, Curriculum Aims and Objectives
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
Merriam, Sharan B., Qualitative Research and Case Study Applications in Education, Revised and Expanded. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997., Sharan B. Merriam
Annotation: Discusses the design of qualitative research, data collection and analysis, and writing of reports.
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
Hammack, Floyd M., "Ethical Issues in Teacher Research," Teachers College Record, 99(Winter, 1997), 247-265., Floyd M. Hammack
Annotation: Identifies and examines ethical issues in teacher research, especially when participants of the research are the teacher's own students.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Teacher Research, Knowledge Generation
Eisner, Elliot W., "Cognition and Representation: A Way to Pursue the American Dream?" Phi Delta Kappan, 78 (January, 1997), 348-353. *, Elliot W. Eisner
Annotation: Presents and elaborates five statements regarding the nature and uses of multiple forms of representation of human thought and discusses what this means for the curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum and the Disciplines, Curriculum Aims and Objectives
Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, and Jessica Hoffman Davis, The Art and Science of Portraiture. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997., Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis
Annotation: Describes and illustrates the use of aesthetic approaches to educational inquiry using portraiture.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Reviews much of the literature of action research within professional, personal, and political dimensions.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry, Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Demonstrates why emotion and hope explain why educational change works or does not.
Broad Topical Focus: 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
Popkewitz, Thomas S., "The Production of Reason and Power: Curriculum History and Intellectual Traditions," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(March-April, 1997), 131-164., Thomas S. Popkewitz
Annotation: Discusses curriculum as systems of regulation and discipline in the historical examination of school subjects.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Curriculum History, Curriculum and Politics, Ideology and School Knowledge, Content Selection and Organization
Carlgren, Ingrid, and Daniel Kallos, "Lessons from a Comprehensive School System for Curriculum Theory and Research: Sweden Revisited after Twenty Years," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(July-August, 1997), 407-430., Ingrid Carlgren and Daniel Kallos
Annotation: Updates a 1977 report from Sweden on the same topic with new lessons learned from the intervening 20 years; the role of the theory of frame-factors is reanalyzed.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Comparative Curriculum
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, "Contested Terrain: A History of Education Research in the United States, 1890-1990," Educational Researcher, 26(December, 1997), 5-17., Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Annotation: Traces the history of educational research in the U. S. and identifies major researchers and studies in curriculum and other specialties.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Schulz, Renate, Interpreting Teacher Practice: Two Continuing Stories. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997., Renate Schulz
Annotation: Provides narratives of two teachers' teaching along with reflections on the problem of narrative inquiry and of collaborative research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Practical Knowledge
Hafernik, Johnnie Johnson, Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, and Stephanie Vandrick, "Collaborative Research: Why and How?" Educational Researcher, 26(December, 1997), 31-35., Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Dorothy S. Messerschmitt, and Stephanie Vandrick
Annotation: Rercommends collaborative research and writing; discusses porcesses and advantages.
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: Knowledge Generation
Tierney, William G., and Yvonna A. Lincoln, eds., Representation and the Text: Re-Framing the Narrative Voice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997., William G. Tierney and Yvonna A. Lincoln
Annotation: Explores issues surrounding the writing of qualitative research as texts.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research
Hargreaves, Andy, ed., Rethinking Educational Change With Heart and Mind, 1997 ASCD Yearbook. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1997., Andy Hargreaves
Annotation: Provides eleven articles by key scholars of educational change reflecting current thinking and research related to changing relationships and culture of the setting and giving attention to the emotional aspects of persons involved in the process.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Organization Theory, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Psychology and Curriculum
Schmuck, Richard A., Practical Action Research for Change. Arlington Heights, IL: Skylight Training and Publishing, 1997., Richard A. Schmuck
Annotation: Describes the action research process and gives workbook exercises.
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
Hill, John C., "Learning the Three Keys," The Educational Forum, 61 (Winter, 1997), 145-152. *, John C. Hill
Annotation: Proposes a model for curriculum design that balances the control, the adaptive, and the personal curriculum within a horizontally aligned program.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization
Beane, James A., Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democration Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997., James A. Beane
Annotation: Makes the case for curriculum integration across subjects as a form of curriculum design.
Broad Topical Focus: 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: Curriculum Integration, Democratic Education, Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Highlights the problems and challenges of educational change while embracing the emotional aspects of teaching and leadership.
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: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Psychology and Curriculum, Organization Theory
Foshay, Arthur Wellsley, "The Emotions and Social Studies," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 12(Summer, 1997), 356-366.*, Arthur Wellsley Foshay
Annotation: Shows how social studies can contribute to the development of mature emotions.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Social Studies, Curriculum Integration, Psychology and Curriculum
Annotation: Tells the story of a curriculum change process conducted in Trinidad and Tobago.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Comparative Curriculum
Weber, Lillian, Looking Back and Thinking Forward: Reexaminations of Teaching and Schooling. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997., Lillian Weber
Annotation: Contains twelve essays on Weber's theories of teaching and learning.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teaching/Learning Process
Annotation: Argues for a curriculum that offers understandings of five kinds: mythic, romantic, philosophic, ironic, and somatic.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and the Disciplines, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh, Conversations with Educational Leaders: Contemporary Viewpoints on Education in America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997., Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood
Annotation: Reports interviews with 24 leaders in education on their views of violence, values, youth culture, multiculturalism, enrichment, multiple intelligences, professionalism, leadership, and reform in education.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Education as a Field of Study
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
Annotation: Points to changes over time in the paradigms of research used in school effectiveness research, especially in relation to differing curriculum views on the question, "What Do Schools Do?".
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Thomas, Thomas F., and William H. Schubert, "Recent Curriculum Theory: Proposals for Understanding, Critical Praxis, Inquiry, and Expansion of Conversation," Educational Theory, 47(Spring, 1997), 261-285.*, Thomas F. Thomas and William H. Schubert
Annotation: Reviews and critques three books-- Understanding Curriculum (Pinar, et al.), Curriculum for Utopia (Stanley), and Studying Curriculum (Goodson).
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Hollingsworth, Sandra, ed., International Action Research: Casebook for Educational Reform. Bristol, PA: Falmer Press, 1997., Sandra Hollingsworth
Annotation: Provides 27 articles on various perspectives on action research written by a wide range of international action research experts.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Comparative Curriculum
Annotation: Recommends the establishment of USDE research and development program to evaluate educational programs by third-party design competitions.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Program Audit/Evaluation, Government Role in Educational Research & Development
Annotation: Explores in one elementary school the intersections between business-motivated reform school neighborhoods, children's activities, and images they encountered.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Reports an ethnographic study of three libraries and their prevailing ideologies regarding reading and reading materials.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Materials Development and Evaluation, Reading
Anderson, Stephen E., "Understanding Teacher Change: Revisiting the Concerns Based Adoption Model," Curriculum Inquiry, 27 (Fall, 1997), 331-367., Stephen E. Anderson
Annotation: Reviews the literature on Concerns Based Adoption Model from its inception to the present.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Implementation
Cross, Beverly E., "Self-Esteem and Curriculum: Perspectives from Urban Teachers," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 13(Fall, 1997), 70-91., Beverly E. Cross
Annotation: Reports a study of teachers' conceptions of self-esteem in urban students.
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: Self-Knowledge, Teacher Knowledge
Annotation: Explores the advantages and problems of permitting students to choose their own curriculum subjects.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Differentiation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Beyer, Landon E., "Community, Identity, and a Sense of Hope." JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 13(Winter, 1997), 50-52., Landon E. Beyer
Annotation: Gives a personal reflection on the value and meaning of participating in the "Bergamo Conference" on curriculum theorizing over the years from 1982-1997.
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, American/International Curriculum Organizations, Professionalization in Curriculum
Annotation: Explores the question of textual authority in postmodern researchers' use of self in autobiographical or first-person inquiry.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Self-Knowledge
Yeager, Elizabeth Anne, "Curriculum Change as a Social Process: A Historical Perspective on the Ideas of Alice Miel," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 13(Fall, 1997), 30-55.*, Elizabeth Anne Yeager
Annotation: Traces Alice Miel's contributions to the curriculum field, her views of curriculum development and change, and other matters based on a 1995 dissertation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Development Strategies, Curriculum Implementation
Annotation: Reviews Wilford M. Aikin's role in the Eight Year Study and his overall legacy.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Classics of Curriculum Literature, Curriculum History