Citations from 1992
Guba, Egon G., "Relativism," Curriculum Inquiry, 22(Spring, 1992), 17-23., Egon G. Guba
Annotation: Describes issues surrounding relativism in educational research; one of four related aticles.
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: Discusses ways to connect research and practice in education and gives examples of work being done collaboratively.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Defining Curriculum Research Questions
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Deals with research on the intersection of curriculum and pedagogy, including a summary of research traditions in each of these domains; topics include texts, content, lesson and task structure, and teaching as transformation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Conceptions of Teaching, Content Selection and Organization
Goodlad, John I., and Zhixin Su, "Organization of the Curriculum," pp. 327-344 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, l992., John I. Goodlad and Zhixin Su
Annotation: Summarizes options and issues related to various modes of organizing the curriculum; gives sources and patterns of curriculum organization.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization
Annotation: Provides a qualitative portrait of one student teacher's concept of self-identity.
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: Self-Knowledge, Teacher Education
Eisner, Elliot W., "Curriculum Ideologies," pp. 302-326 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992., Elliot W. Eisner
Annotation: Reviews the role and function of ideologies in curriculum; discusses religious orthodoxy, rational humanism, progressivism, critical theory, reconceptualism, and cognitive pluralism.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Hidden Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Apple, Michael W., "The Text and Cultural Politics," Educational Researcher, 21(October, 1992), 4-11.*, Michael W. Apple
Annotation: Analyzes the presence of official knowledge in textbooks, the political and cultural forces that effect textbook content, and how readers respond to such texts.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Textbooks, Ideology and School Knowledge
Lytle, Susan L., and Marilyn Cochran-Smith, "Teacher Research as a Way of Knowing," Harvard Educational Review, 62(Winter, 1992), 447-474., Susan L. Lytle and Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Annotation: Argues for teachers doing inquiry into teaching in the classroom as the primary source of knowledge about teaching.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research
Kliebard, Herbert M., Forging the American Curriculum: Essays in Curriculum History and Theory. New York: Routledge, 1992., Herbert M. Kliebard
Annotation: Reprints six essays in curriculum history and six in curriculum theory by Kliebard.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Kimpston, Richard D., Howard Y. Williams, and William S. Stockton, "Ways of Knowing and the Curriculum," The Educational Forum, 56(Winter, 1992), 153-172., Richard D. Kimpston, Howard Y. Williams, and William S. Stockton
Annotation: Sets forth four learning paradigms (association, correspondence, coherence, recognition), each with two subtypes, and provides a matrix analyzing each of these by six questions, including implications for curriculum planning.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, 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: Content Selection and Organization, Teaching/Learning Process
Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin, "Student Perspectices on Curriculum Innovation and Change in an English Secondary School: An Empirical Study," British Educational Research Journal, 18(No. 3, 1992), 221-234., Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Annotation: Interviews students and teachers on their understanding of their roles in curriculum innovation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum
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
Goodman, Jesse, "Towards a Discourse of Imagery: Critical Curriculum Theorizing," The Educational Forum, 56(Spring, 1992), 269-289.*, Jesse Goodman
Annotation: Contrasts discourse of criticism, discourse of possibility, and discourse of critical imagery and argues that advantage of critical imagery.
Broad Topical Focus: Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Cook, Thomas D., Harris Cooper, David S. Cordray, Heidi Hartmann, Larry V. Hedges, Richard J. Light, Thomas A. Louis, and Frederick Mosteller, Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992., Thomas D. Cook, Harris Cooper, David S. Cordray, Heidi Hartmann, Larry V. Hedges, Richard J. Light, Thomas A. Louis, and Frederick Mosteller
Annotation: Describes processes and issues in doing explanatory quantitative meta-analysis of empirical studies and presents some case examples--one in school science achievement.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Science
Black, Susan, "Is Curriculum on Your Bargaining Table?" The American School Board Journal, 179(April, 1992), 30-33., Susan Black
Annotation: Suggests curriculum matters that can be dealt with in contract bargaining.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
Ben-Peretz, Miriam, "Curriculum Development," pp. 256-260 in Marvin C. Alkin, ed., Encyclopedia of Educational Research, 6th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1992.*, Miriam Ben-Peretz
Annotation: Summarizes three models of curriculum development, who should participate in the process, and the relation between society and the curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies
Britzman, Deborah P.,"Structures of Feeling in Curriculum and Teaching," Theory into Practice, 31(Summer, 1992), 252-258., Deborah P. Britzman
Annotation: Describes agency and identity in teaching from a critical perspective.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Ideology and School Knowledge, Teaching/Learning Process
Holdzkom, David, "The Influence of State Agencies on Curriculum," NASSP Bulletin, 76(December, 1992), 12-23.*, David Holdzkom
Annotation: Reviews the role of state education authorities' influence on curriculum through curriculum regulations, financing, and reform movements.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Local Control of Schooling
Klein, M. Frances, "A Perspective on the Gap between Curriculum Theory and Practice," Theory into Practice, 31(Summer, 1992), 191-197., M. Frances Klein
Annotation: Gives reasons for the gap between curriculum theory and practice and suggests ways of closing the gap.
Broad Topical Focus: Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses
Gallagher, Shaun. Hermeneutics and Education. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992., Shaun Gallagher
Annotation: Introduces educators to hermeneutic inquiry and shows the relation of conservative, critical, and radical hermeneutics to education.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Darling-Hammond, Linda, and Jon Snyder, "Curriculum Studies and the Traditions of Inquiry: The Scientific Tradition," pp. 41-78 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992., Linda Darling-Hammond and Jon Snyder
Annotation: Describes uses of scientific inquiry in curriculum, reviews studies of learning as a basis for curriculum, and discusses several studies (both historical and recent) concerned with differentiated curriculum, indicators of achievement, and teaching (the enacted curriculum).
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Differentiation
Goodson, Ivor, "Studying School Subjects," Curriculum Perspectives, 12 (April, 1992), 23-26., Ivor Goodson
Annotation: Reviews the historical work done in studying the origins and development of school subjects in U. S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: School Subjects, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum
Pinar, William F., and C. A. Bowers, "Politics of Curriculum: Origins, Controversial, and Significance of Critical Perspectives," pp. 163-190 in Gerald Grant, ed. Review of Research in Education, 18: 1992. Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association, 1992., William F. Pinar and C. Bowers
Annotation: Reviews the variety of scholarly work in the 1970's and 1980s on the politics of curriculum as found in the work of the critical theorists.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum and Politics, Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Presents a pragmatic holistic model of curriculum development within an educative philosophy of curriculum leadership.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Administration, Leadership, Finance, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Development Strategies
Montero-Sieburth, Martha, "Models and Practice of Curriculum Change in Developing Countries," Comparative Education Review, 36(May, 1992), 175-193., Martha Montero-Sieburth
Annotation: Summarizes studies on curriculum change in developing countries and teachers' roles in the process.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum
Reid, William A., "Essay Review: The State of Curriculum Inquiry," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 24(March-April, 1992), 165-177.*, William A. Reid
Annotation: Discusses the direction curriculum inquiry has taken in recent years as revealed in the book on Forms of Curriculum Inquiry edited by E. C. Short in 1991.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Describes the issues surrounding the concepts of objectivity, subjectivity, and relativism in various forms of educational research; introduces four articles.
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
Kamens, David H., and Yun-Kyung Cha, "The Legitimation of New Subjects in Mass Schooling: 19th-Century Origins and 20th-Century Diffusion of Art and Physical Education," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 24(January-February, 1992), 43-60., David H. Kamens and Yun-Kyung Cha
Annotation: Reviews the history of art and physical education in the curriculum around the world.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Comparative Curriculum, School Subjects, Art Education, Physical Education
Annotation: Analyzes empirical data on teachers' willingness to participate in decision making; principal-teacher relationship has the greatest influence.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
Annotation: Analzes and critiques several theorists' attempts to challenge Ralph Tyler's rationale (1949).
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: Curriculum History, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Classics of Curriculum Literature
Holland, Patricia, and Noreen B, Garman, "Macdonald and the Mythopoetic,"Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 9(Summer, 1992), 45-72.*, Patricia Holland and Noreen B. Garman
Annotation: Expands Macdonald's views on mythopoetic language in curriculum inquiry by demonstrating the powers of the mythopoetic-reflexive, moral, controlling, and evocative.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Theorists, Inquiry Language in Curriculum Research, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes
Annotation: Reviews writings on scientific and qualitative research methods in general and in curriculum, and proposes a method of formative curriculum research appropriate to use with practical curriculum problems.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Relation of Curriculum Research to Practice
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Multiple/Mixed Forms of Inquiry, Scientific/Empirical Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Stanley, William B., Curriculum for Utopia: Social Reconstructionism and Critical Pedagogy in the Postmodern Era. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992., William B. Stanley
Annotation: Analyzes the role of reconstructionism in critical pedogogy and relates this to past and present tradtions of educational theory.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, 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: Ideology and School Knowledge, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Aims and Objectives, Philosophical Schools
Annotation: Reports personal quest among two students and herself to develop meaningful professional discourse.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teacher Knowledge
Annotation: Contrasts positivist and several post-positivist paradigms for educational research within a critical perspective.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Reviews historical aspects of educating women and men as well as the 20th century curriculum situation and transformative endeavors.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Curriculum Differentiation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Describes issues surrounding subjectivity in educational research; one of four related articles.
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, Qualitative Research
Pinar, William F., and William M. Reynolds, eds., Understanding Curriculum as Phenonenological and Deconstructed Text. New York: Teachers College Press, 1992., William F. Pinar and William M. Reynolds
Annotation: Contains 12 articles describing phenonenological inquiry and giving examples followed by genealogical notes on the work of leading scholars in this type of curriculum studies.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: All Fields
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry, Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Strickland, Dorothy S., and Carol Ascher, "Low Income African-American Children and Public Schooling," pp. 609-625 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992., Dorothy S. Strickland and Carol Ascher
Annotation: Reviews how poverty and race affect curriculum reform and innovation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, 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: Content Selection and Organization
Kliebard, Herbert M., "Constructing a History of the American Curriculum," pp. 157-184 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 1992., Herbert M. Kliebard
Annotation: Traces the course of historical work done on Committee Reports, scientific curriculum making, the John Dewey legacy, case studies, and school subjects.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Research Domains and Structure
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Annotation: Reviews in depth the issues involved in variations among conceptions of both curriculum and the work of curriculum specialists; takes up definitional issues, perpectival issues, and professional issues.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Definitions, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Integrative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Status Study
Narrow Topic: Professionalization in Curriculum, Curriculum Specialists in Schools, Programs of Study in Curriculum and Instruction, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Reviews types of qualitative inquiry and the several strategies employed in it, sketches the branches in the tree of qualitative inquiry, and distinguishes among the many varieties of end products (table 1).
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
Lakomski, Gabriele, "Unity over Diversity: Coherence and Realism in Educational Research," Curriculum Inquiry, 22(Summer, 1992), 191-203., Gabriele Lakomski
Annotation: Makes a case against interpretist modes of inquiry as differenct in kind from empiricist modes of inquiry; Eisner responds in an article, pp. 205-209.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
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
Beane, James A., "Creating an Integrated Curriculum: Making the Connections," NASSP Bulletin, 76(November, 1992), 46-54., James A. Beane
Annotation: Clarifies terminology related to integrative models of curriculum organization and their use.
Broad Topical Focus: 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 Integration
Behar, Linda, and Allan Ornstein, "An Overview of Curriculum: The Theory and Practice," NASSP Bulletin, 76(November, 1992), 32-44.*, Linda Behar and Allan Ornstein
Annotation: Reports an empirical study comparing teachers' and professors of curriculum's views of the importance of various curriculum practices within selected systems and domains of curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Professors, Teacher Knowledge
Annotation: Conceptualizes curriculum as a public institution and as a moral practice requiring the use of deliberation and participation of the five commonplaces identified by Schwab.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
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
Annotation: Reviews discourse on curriculum over the last 20 years including critical issues such as corporate involvement in education.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, Discourse Analysis, Curriculum and Politics, Criticism of Schooling
Annotation: Gives a personal account of the mentor-mentee relationship between a curriculum theorist and the author.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teaching/Learning Process
Annotation: Reviews four patterns of curriculum organization--academic, social reconstruction, humanistic, and technological-- and summarizes recent research related to each pattern.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization
McEwin, C. Kenneth, "William M. Alexander: Father of the American Middle School," Middle School Journal, 23(May 1992): 32-38.*, C. Kenneth McEwin
Annotation: Recounts the contributions of William Alexander to the middle school concept.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Middle School Curriculum, Curriculum History
Lee, Diane, and Louise M. Berman, "Ill-Structured Problems: Reconsidering Teenage Sexuality," pp. 284 -300 in James T. Sears, ed., Sexuality and the Curriculum . New York: Teachers College Press, 1992.*, Diane Lee and Louise M. Berman
Annotation: Draws together a curriculum proposal for teaching sexuality issues to teen-agers.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Proposals in Coherent Form, Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Ethical Issues in Curriculum
Annotation: Conceptualizes five stages of the negotiation process involved in curriculum planning, teaching, learning, and evaluation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Conceptions of Teaching, Teaching/Learning Process, Content Selection and Organization, Democratic Education
Fillmore, Lily Wong, and Lois M. Meyer, "The Curriculum and Linguistic Minorities," pp. 626-658 in Philip W. Jackson, ed., Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, l992., Lily Wong Fillmore and Lois M. Meyer
Annotation: Defines the issues, the various adaptations used, and the research needed in educating students of linguistic minorities.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Multiethnic Adaptation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Haberman, Martin, "The Role of the Classroom Teacher as a Curriculum Leader, NASSP Bulletin, 76(November, 1992), 11-19.*, Martin Haberman
Annotation: Reviews the literature on the role of teachers in curriculum development and draws implications for practice.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Teacher Knowledge, Curriculum Development Strategies
Maxwell, Joseph A., "Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research," Harvard Educational Review, 62(Fall, 1992), 279-300., Joseph A. Maxwell
Annotation: Presents five types of validity (descriptive, interpetive, theoretical, generalizability, and evaluative) and their implications for all kinds of inquiry.
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, Qualitative Research
Citations from 1991
Berman, Louise M., Francine H. Hultgren, Diane Lee, Mary S. Rivkin, Jessie A. Roderick, Toward Curriculum for Being: Voices of Educators . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991., Louise M. Berman, Francine H. Hultgren, Diane Lee, Mary S. Rivkin, and Jessie A. Roderick
Annotation: Reports the exchanges among a study group of six women educators, their autobiographical statements and thoughts, and their mutual interpretations and meaning-making.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry, Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Donmoyer, Robert, "Postpositivist Evaluation: Give Me a For Instance," Educational Administration Quarterly, 27 (August, 1991), 265-296.*, Robert Donmoyer
Annotation: Proposes a deliberative form of evaluation and gives an example of its use in an administrator's evaluation of teachers' instruction.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum and Politics, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Curriculum Deliberation
Fuhrman, Susan H., and Betty Malen, eds., The Politics of Curriculum and Testing . Philadelphia: Falmer, 1991., Susan H. Fuhrman and Betty Malen
Annotation: Provides thirteen studies of the politics of curriculum and testing at the state and local levels.
Broad Topical Focus: 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 and Politics, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Program Audit/Evaluation
Annotation: Describes the processes of philosophical criticism in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Describes the processes of deliberative inquiry in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Deliberative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Deliberation
Willis, George, and William H. Schubert, ed., Reflections from the Heart of Educational Inquiry: Understanding Curriculum and Teaching through the Arts. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991., George Willis and William H. Schubert
Annotation: Gives 33 views and illustrations from leading curriculum theorists of how the arts afffect teaching, curriculum, and inquiry on curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Aesthetics and Curriculum, Curriculum Professors, Art Education
Annotation: Gives an ethical critique of the New York State elementary science testing program (ESPET) and its utilitarian perspective.
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: Curriculum Standards and Testing, Science, Evaluation of Instruction, Ethical Issues in Curriculum, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Ely, Margot, with Margaret Anzul, Teri Friedman, Diane Garner, and Ann McCormack Steinmetz, Doing Qualitative Research: Circles within Circles . Philadelphia: Falmer, 1991., Margot Ely, Margaret Anzul, Teri Friedman, Diane Garner, and Ann McCormack Steinmetz
Annotation: Reports the experiences of these authors' doing ethnographic research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Qualitative Research
Gore, Jennifer M., "On Silent Regulation: Emancipatory Action Reserach in Preservice Teacher Education," Curriculum Perspectives, 11(October, 1991), 47-51., Jennifer M. Gore
Annotation: Comments on dangers and possibilities of using action research methods in teacher education.
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 Education
Eisner, Elliot W., "Should America Have a National Curriculum?" Educational Leadership, 49 (October, 1991), 76-81.*, Elliot W. Eisner
Annotation: Gives a critique of a proposed national curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Local Control of Schooling
Whitson, James Anthony, Constitution and Curriculum: Hermeneutical Semiotics of Cases and Controversies in Education, Law, and Social Science. Philadelphia, PA: Falmer Press, 1991., James Anthony Whitson
Annotation: Presents a series of court cases on educational controversies and describes the theories of interpretation applied to them; also explains structural semiotics and post-structural re-interpretations.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Local Control of Schooling, Curriculum and Politics
Giroux, Henry A., ed., Postmodernism, Feminishm, and Cultural Politics: Redrawing Educational Boundaries, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991., Henry A. Giroux
Annotation: Has articles by eight authors (an extended introduction and last article are by Giroux) on the subject of redrawing educational boundaries across cultures.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Glesne, Corrine E., "Yet Another Role? The Teacher as Researcher," Action in Teacher Education , 13 (Spring, 1991), 7-13., Corrine E. Glesne
Annotation: Gives methods for doing teacher research.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Action Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Teacher Research
Janesick, Valerie J., "Ethnographic Inquiry: Understanding Culture and Experience," pp. 101-119 in Edmund C. Short, ed., Forms of Curriculum Inquiry . Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991. *, Valerie J. Janesick
Annotation: Describes the processes of ethnographic inquiry in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Ethnographic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Annotation: Describes the processes of evaluative inquiry in curriculum.
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
Vallance, Elizabeth, "Aesthetic Inquiry: Art Criticism," pp. 155-172 in Edmund C. Short, ed., Forms of Curriculum Inquiry . Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991.*, Elizabeth Vallance
Annotation: Describes the processes of aesthetic inquiry in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Definitions
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Aesthetic Inquiry and Curriculum Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Hansgen, Richard A., "Can Education Become A Science?" Phi Delta Kappan 72(May, 1991): 689-694., Richard A. Hansgen
Annotation: Examines and challenges the basis for the position that education can become a science.
Broad Topical Focus: Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum Research and Inquiry-General, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Noffke, Susan E., "Hearing the Teacher's Voice: Now What?" Curriculum Perspectives, 11(October, 1991), 55-59., Susan E. Noffke
Annotation: Discusses rifts between teacher research and 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
Giroux, Henry A., "Curriculum Planning, Public Schooling, and Democratic Struggle," NASSP Bulletin , 75 (February, 1991), 12-25.*, Henry A. Giroux
Annotation: Argues for a view of curriculum in which educational leaders place critical education in the role of creating democratic citizens.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Citizenship Education, Ideology and School Knowledge, Democratic Education, Conceptions of Teaching, Curriculum Specialists in Schools
Eisner, Elliot W., The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice. New York: Macmillan, 1991. 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 1998., Elliot W. Eisner
Annotation: Explicates features of qualitative inquiry in education with examples from educational criticism.
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, Qualitative Research
Annotation: Poses a conceptual framework for curriculum decision-making in a 9 X 7 matrix.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Conceptions and Theories, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
Smith, Marshall S., and Jennifer O'Day, "Putting the Pieces Together: Systemic School Reform," CPRE Policy Briefs, 1991, 1-11. ERIC Document Reproduction Service ED 343 215., Marshall S. Smith and Jennifer O'Day
Annotation: Reviews efforts at school reform and the barriers to change; offers a strategy for systemic reform.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Change, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Integrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Research Synthesis
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Frameworks, Curriculum Development Strategies
Kincheloe, Joe L., and William F. Pinar, eds., Curriculum as Social Psychoanalysis: The Significance of Place, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991., Joe L. Kincheloe and William F. Pinar
Annotation: Shows the influence of the South on curriculum and curriculum content.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Psychology and Curriculum
McLaughlin, Milbrey W., and D. C. Phillips, ed., Evaluation and Education: At Quarter Century, Ninetieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II. Chicago, IL: National Society for the Study of Education, 1991., Milbrey W. McLaughlin and D. C. Phillips
Annotation: Presents 11 classic contributions to the literature on program evaluation.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Program Audit/Evaluation
Berman, Louise M., "Normative Inquiry: Dimensions and Stances," pp. 225-241 in Edmund C. Short, ed., Forms of Curriculum Inquiry . Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991.*, Louise M. Berman
Annotation: Describes the processes of normative inquiry in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Normative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation
Benson, Garth D., and Bryant E. Griffith, "The Process of Knowing in Curriculum," JGE: The Journal of General Education, 40(1991), 24-33., Garth D. Benson and Bryant E. Griffith
Annotation: Argues for a curriculum model based on the process of knowing.
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, Higher Education Curriculum, Curriculum and the Disciplines
Annotation: Brings together twelve previously published essays by the author that are related to curriculum change.
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: In-service Teacher Development, Curriculum Implementation
St. Maurice, Henry, "A Guide to Commonplaces on the Use of Loci in Educator's Discourse," Journal of Curriculum Studies, 23(January-February, 1991), 41-53., Maurice Henry St.
Annotation: Describes a conception of rhetoric, its application to Schwab's commonplaces of education, and some alternatives.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Theorists
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
Annotation: Expresses personal experience of curriculum in same qualitative terms as the experience of opera.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum as Experience, Self-Knowledge
Mulder, Martin, "Deliberation in Curriculum Conferences," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision , 6 (Summer, 1991), 325-339., Martin Mulder
Annotation: Describes an empirical study of deliberation in curriculum conferences in Germany.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Decision-making Processes, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Content Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum Deliberation
Graham, Robert J., Reading and Writing the Self: Autobiography in Education and the Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991., Robert J. Graham
Annotation: Explores the problems and possibilities of autobiography in English Language Education and in curriculum generally; relates the discussion broadly to the genre of autobiography and more specifically to the work of Pinar, Grumet, and others in Curriculum Studies.
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
Annotation: Contains 47 papers on historical aspects of curriculum practice, theory, research, and leaders presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History between 1977 and 1991; information on the Society and its meetings is also included.
Broad Topical Focus: Publication Outlets for Curriculum Research and Inquiry, Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Collection of Studies
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History, American/International Curriculum Organizations
Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. New York: Guilford, 1991., Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
Annotation: Sets forth and critiques positions taken by various postmodern theorists; Foucault, Deleuze, Guattare, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Jameson, and Habermas; indicates how modernist and postmodernist weaknesses can be overcome in a new reconstructed critical social theroy.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Field other than Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Critical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Comparisons Among Inquiry Modes
Annotation: Reviews the history of the Virginia Curriculum Revision Program in the 1930s including the role played by Hollis L. Caswell.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Theorists, Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Decision-making Processes
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Kretovics, Joseph R., Kathleen S. Farber, and William D. Armaline, "Blowing the Top Off Urban Education: Educational Empowerment and Academic Achievement," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision , 6 (Spring, 1991), 222-232., Joseph R. Kretovics, Kathleen S. Farber, and William D. Armaline
Annotation: Describes the SHAPE program in Toledo and gives evaluation results.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Scientific/Empirical Inquiry, Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Alternatives in Education
Annotation: Reports the development and use of a curriculum materials analysis instrument (SALTAL), a copy of which is included.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Guides, Plans, Documents, Materials
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Materials Development and Evaluation
Gudmundsdottir, Sigrun, "Story-maker, Story-teller: Narrative Structures in Curriculum," Journal of Curriculum Studies , 23 (May-June, 1991), 207-218., Sigrun Gudmundsdottir
Annotation: Gives examples of pedagogical content knowledge of two teachers presented in their narratives.
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, Teacher Knowledge, Teacher Education
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
May, Wanda T., "Constructing History in a Graduate Curriculum Class," Curriculum Inquiry , 21 (Summer, 1991), 163-191., Wanda T. May
Annotation: Explores teachers' constructions of historical knowledge and other perceptions in a graduate curriculum class.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum as a Field of Practice and Study
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Phenomenological Inquiry, Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Programs of Study in Curriculum and Instruction, Curriculum History, Teaching/Learning Process
Huebner, Dwayne, "Notes Toward a Framework for Curriculum Inquiry," Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 6 (Winter, 1991), 145-161.*, Dwayne Huebner
Annotation: Distinguishes theoretical and ideological inquiry in curriculum; instructional and agential curricular events; and the relationships among these concepts.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Research Domains and Structure, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines, Curriculum Conceptions and Theories
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry, Philosophical Inquiry-Conceptual Analysis
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Knowledge Generation, Curriculum Theory Creation and Uses, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum
Annotation: Identifies a variety of knowledge and value perspectives that must be taken into account in selecting curriculum content generally and in science in particular.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Development, Organization, Design, Curriculum Visions and Philosophies, Critique and Utilization of Curriculum Research and Inquiry
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Theoretical/Conceptual Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Content Selection and Organization, Science
Annotation: Describes the processes of historical inquiry in curriculum.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline: Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Historical Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Curriculum History
Annotation: Reviews literature related to critical pedagogy and argues its role in confronting hegemonic praxis.
Broad Topical Focus: Curriculum Enactment and Teaching
Source Discipline: Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study: Hermeneutic Inquiry
Type of Study: Single Study
Narrow Topic: Teaching/Learning Process, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Conceptions of Teaching
McTaggart, Robin, "Action Research is a Broad Movement," Curriculum Perpectives, 11(October, 1991), 44-47., Robin McTaggart
Annotation: Traces the history of the rediscovery of action research in Australian and discusses its use in third world countries.
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, Curriculum History, Comparative Curriculum