Uses social and historical arguments to examine idea of curriculum as institutionalized learning. Discusses institutional categories. Draws implications for theory and research. (Contains 23 references.)(PKP)

Discusses significance and impact of writings by University of Chicago scholar Joseph J. Schwab on the field of curriculum, focusing on his article "The Practical: A Language for Curriculum" (School Review; v78 n1 p1-23 1999). (PKP)

Examines educational history to discover the process by which curriculum became a universal idea and how the concept of the classroom was invented. Argues that universal ideas and inventions such as the classroom result in the creation of dominant institutional categories that exert a powerful influence over what can or cannot be done by…

Argues that traditional English methods of deciding what to teach have been more pragmatic than either U.S. "Curriculum Theory" or German "Didaktik," both emphasizing principled arguments about educational goals. Observes that English schooling continues to be shaped by discussion of subject-based methods rather than…