Today's curriculum frames, based on the Tyler/Taylor rationale, competency-based instruction, or Madeline Hunter's model, are not constructed to welcome paradox and eclecticism, indeterminacy, self-organization, or satire and play. Postmodernism demands a fundamental questioning of old ways and an exploration of new values. Copy-model and…

There is little residue from the cooperative action research movement of the 1940s and 1950s. So far, teachers have found educational research applications of little use. Action research must originate in the classroom. Researchers are advised to keep it simple, become an effective classroom consultant, learn how teachers think, and be modest in…

Summarizes Dewey's essay "The Educational Situation: As Concerns the Elementary School" and discusses implications for today's elementary school curriculum. (PKP)