New Directions in Curriculum Studies [Paperback]

Originally published in 1979. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Curriculum Studies. This edited collection of ten significant papers, five of them specially commissioned to critically survey a decade of intellectual effort in selected areas of curriculum studies, not only identifies the emerging frontiers in an important field within the study of education but also provides an excellent set of teaching and learning resources in an area where the usual text book can be counter-productive.

Introduction: Curriculum Studies in Retrospect and Prospect Philip H. Taylor Part 1: The Search For New Paradigms 1. Humanistic Trends and the Curriculum Field Elliot W. Eisner 2. The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies William F. Pinar 3. Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches to the Evaluation of Learning Stephen Kemmis 4. An Action Frame of Reference as a Register for Curriculum Discourse Rex Oram Part 2: The Ideological Dimension 5. Curriculum, Culture and Ideology Frank Musgrove  6. Piaget, Marx and the Political Ideology of Schooling Barry A. Kaufman 7. Lessons from a Comprehensive School System for Curriculum Theory and Research