EDF.524 (Syllabus)2003

 

 

 

Central Connecticut State University

 

EDF 524       Foundations of Contemporary Theories of Curriculum         Mulcahy

 

1.      Catalog Description:

A study of the social, psychological, and philosophical influences that shape the curriculum and a range of curriculum positions from the U.S. and other countries.

 

2          Textbooks/Readings

Allan C. Ornstein, Linda S, Behar-Horenstein, and Edward F. Pajak,

Contemporary Issues in Curriculum (3rd edition) Boston.  Allyn and Bacon.  2003

       Readings on Reserve in Library

 

3     Objectives and Rationale:

To consider the social, psychological, and philosophical influences that shape the curriculum, with particular reference to secondary education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

 

To debate and discuss with reference to secondary education in particular, the aims, content, and methods represented by the curriculum positions of official bodies such as the Connecticut State Board of Education and the National Commission on Excellence in Education and prominent curriculum theorists of the past century, such as Mortimer Adler, Ernest Boyer, Harry S. Broudy, Paulo Freire, E. D. Hirsch, Paul Hirst, Jane Roland Martin, and Nel Noddings.  Attention will also be given to influential figures in the history of curriculum thinking. 

 

4. Course Outline

            Major topics to be treated include the following:

the historical evolution of curriculum theory;

Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education (1918);

the Tyler rationale;

the impact on curriculum of A Nation at Risk and Goals 2000;

the Educational Reform Act of 1988 (England);

Connecticut’s Common Core of Learning;

and the curriculum ideas of  Mortimer Adler, Harry S. Broudy, Philip H. Phenix, Paul Hirst and R. S. Peters, E. D. Hirsch, Jane Roland Martin, and Nel Noddings.

 

5   Bibliography:

A Bibliography is attached

 

6. Class requirements

            Class participation and satisfactory completion of assignments and tests/exams

 

7. Evaluation and semester grade computation:

            Weekly summaries            10%

            Class presentation             10%

            Term paper:              40%

            Final essay examination:            40%

 

The grade scale is as follows:

 

A+=100; A=95; A‑90; B+=87; B=84; B‑80; C+=77; C=74; C=70;

D+=64; D=57; D‑50; F=0‑49

 

8. Instructional Model: The method of instruction employed in this class is largely a combination of lecture, questioning, and discussion and is based on a combination of direct instruction and reflective teaching models of instruction. Use is made of audiovisual materials.

 

9        Bibliography:

A Bibliography is attached

 

10  Miscellaneous information:

            Office:            Barnard 271

            Tel:            832‑2418

            e‑mail:            Mulcahy@ccsu.edu

            Office hours:   As posted

Bibligraphy

 

Adler , Mortimer J. The Paideia Proposal.  New York: Macmillan, 1982.

Broudy, Harry S, B. O. Smith, and Joe R. Burnett, Democracy and Excellence in American Secondary Education.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. by Romos, Myra. New York: Herder & Herder, 1971.

Goals 2000: Educate America Act, 1994

Gutek, Gerald, L. American Education in a Global Societv. New York: Longmans, 1993.

Hirsch, E. D. Cultural Literacy.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987

Hirst, P. H. and R.S. Peters. The Logic of Education. London: RKP, 1970.

Hirst, P. H.  Education and the Structure of Knowledge.  London: RKP, 1974

Illich, Ivan. De‑Schooling Society.  New York: Harper and Row, 1971

Martin, Jane Roland, Cultural Miseducation.  New York: Teachers College Press, 2002

McLaren, Peter. Life in Schools.  White Plains, N.Y.: Longmans, 1994.

Mulcahy, D. G.  Knowledge, Gender, and Schooling.  Westport, CT.  Bergin and Garvey, 2002

Newman, J. H. The Idea of a University. (Many editions available.)

Noddings, Nel.  The Challenge to Care in Schools.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1992

Peters, R.S. Ethics and Education.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1966.

Phenix, Philip H.  Realms of Meaning.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1964.

Plato, The Republic. (Many translation available)

Pring, Richard.  Knowledge and Schooling.  London: Open Books, 1976

Rousseau, J. J. Emile (Many translations available).

St. Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana. (Any translation)

U.S. Department of Education. America 2000. Washington, D.C.: USDE, 1991.

The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education.  1918

The National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1983.

Course term paper                                                                                                                                                                     Mulcahy

 

Either

Critically evaluate the curriculum position of any one of the following authors:

Adler, Boyer, Broudy, Hirst, Hirsch, Noddings, Maritain, Martin, Pring, Sizer, Stratemeyer…

 

Or

Develop a curriculum position of your own and use it to critically consider Connecticut’s Common Core of Learning (Revised 1999)

 

Papers are due on the class before Thanksgiving

 

In the case of all term papers, use is to be made of course readings and lecture materials. 

 

The paper is to be ten pages in length and is to follow accepted conventions in regard to layout, references/footnotes, and bibliography.

 

Please see me if you wish to have guidance in identifying reference materials beyond those listed below:

 

TERM PAPER BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Adler, Mortimer J.  The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto.  New York: Macmillan, 1982.

Bereiter, Carl.  Must We Educate?  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1973.

Bloom, Allan.  The Closing of the American Mind.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Boyer, Ernest L.  High School.  New York: Harper and Row, 1983.

Broudy, Harry S., B. Othanel. Smith, and Joe R. Burnett.  Democracy and Excellence in American Secondary Education: A Study in Curriculum Theory.  Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1964.

Bruner, Jerome S.  The Process of Education.  New York: Vintage Press, 1960.

Connecticut’s Common Core of Learning.  Hartford, CT: Connecticut State Board of Education, 1999.

Carr, David.  “Practical Pursuits and the Curriculum,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 12 (July 1978): 69-80.

Dewey, John.  The School and Society.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1956.

Dewey, John.  Democracy and Education.  New York: The Free Press, 1966.

Freire, Paulo.  Pedagogy of the Oppressed.  Trans Myra Bergman Ramos.  New York: Herder and Herder, 1971.

Gaskell, Jane and John Willinsky, eds.  Gender In/forms Curriculum.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1995. 

Hirsch, E. D.  Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.  New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

Hirst, Paul H.  “Education, Knowledge and Practices.”  Beyond Liberal Education.  Eds.  Robin Barrow and Patricia White.  London: Routledge, 1993.  184-199.

Hirst, Paul H.  Knowledge and the Curriculum.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

Hirst, P. H. and R. S. Peters.  The Logic of Education.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.

Illich, Ivan.  De-schooling Society.  New York: Harper and Row, 1971.

Kimball, Bruce A.  Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1986.

Maritain, Jacques.  “Thomist Views on Education.”  Modern Philosophies and Education.  Fifty-fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I.  Ed. Nelson B. Henry.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1955.  57-90.

Maritain, Jacques.  Jacques.  Education at the Crossroads.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943.

Martin, Jane Roland.  Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985.

Martin, Jane Roland.  The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Martin, Jane Roland.  Changing the Educational Landscape: Philosophy, Women, and Curriculum.  New York: Routledge, 1994.

Martin, Jane Roland.  Cultural Miseducation.  New York: Teachers College Press, 2002

Mulcahy, D. G.  Knowledge, Gender, and Schooling.  Westport, CT.  Bergin and Garvey, 2002

Mulcahy, D. G.  “Is the Nation at Risk from The Paideia Proposal?”  Educational Theory  35 (Spring 1985): 209‑221.

Mulcahy, D. G.  Curriculum and Policy in Irish Post-Primary Education.  Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1981.

National Association of Scholars.  The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993.  Princeton, NJ: National Association of Scholars, 1996.

National Commission on Excellence in Education.  A Nation at Risk.  Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of Education, 1983.

National Education Association.  Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education.  Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1918.

Newman, John Henry.  The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated.  Ed. Charles Frederick Harrold.  New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1947.

Noddings, Nel.  Philosophy of Education.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.

Noddings, Nel.  The Challenge to Care in Schools.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1992

Nussbaum, Martha C.  Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Perry, L. R.  “Commonsense Thought, Knowledge, and Judgement and Their Importance for Education.”  Readings in the Philosophy of Education: A Study of Curriculum.  Ed. Jane Roland Martin.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1970.  187-200.

Peters, R. S.  Ethics and Education.  London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1966.

Peters, R. S.  “Education and the educated man.”  A Critique of Current Educational Aims.  Eds. R. F. Dearden, P. H. Hirst, and R. S. Peters.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.  1-16. 

Phenix, Philip H.  Realms of Meaning.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1964.  

Plato, The Republic.  Trans. Benjamin Jowett.  New York: Airmont Publishing Company, Inc., 1968.

Pring, Richard.  Knowledge and Schooling.  London: Open Books, 1976.

Sizer, Theodore.  Horace’s Compromise.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Snow, C. P.  The Two Cultures: And a Second Look.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Spencer, Herbert.  Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical.  Totowa, NJ: Littlefield Adams, 1969.

Stratemeyer, Florence, Hamden L. Forkner, Margaret G. McKim, and A. Harry Passow,  Developing a Curriculum for Modern Living.  New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1957.

Weiler, Kathleen.  “Freire and a Feminist Pedagogy of Difference.” Harvard Educational Review 61 (November 1998): 117-145.

White, J. P.  Towards a Compulsory Curriculum.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.