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| Curriculum Inquiry | 7 |
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| Calfee, Robert C. | 1 |
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| Kliebard, Herbert M. | 1 |
| Tyler, Ralph W. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedKliebard, Herbert M. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
Curriculum theory provides the central principle that addresses itself to the question of what we ought to do when we teach children and youth. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDiamonti, Michael C. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
The central concerns of curriculum are actually value questions. If there can be a source for a theory of curriculum, it is in the direction of philosophy. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTyler, Ralph W. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
The history of how the 1947 conference devoted to the theme of curriculum theory formulation came about is discussed in this article. (MLF)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Theories
Peer reviewedKennedy, Mary M. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
The story of the national evaluation of the Follow Through program mirrors the difficulties in trying to evaluate a complex social program that changed its community service orientation to a strategy of planned variation of early childhood programs. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedGreene, Maxine – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
The part the artistic-aesthetic might play in contemporary curriculum would be providing opportunities for the seizing of a range of meanings by persons open to the world. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedAnderson, Richard B. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
Abt Associates, the firm responsible for the primary analysis of the Follow Through experiment, summarize the findings. Their clearest finding indicates that local circumstances, attitudes, and activities unmeasured by evaluation have much more to do with the effectiveness of Follow Through models, without exception, than do their theoretical…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments
Peer reviewedCalfee, Robert C.; Drum, Priscilla A. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1978
Some ideas about how available pieces of reading theory, research, and instruction fit together. (Author)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Models
