Week 5, and we’ve been asked to put together a piece which features multiple genres and multiple media, with which I’ve taken a few liberties. The end result was a video, which was well-received, but one much respected critic commented that it included a video clip that was both too long and detracted from my writing… … Continue reading
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The scientific method in curriculum-making and standardized education
Bobbitt, F. (2013). Scientific method in curriculum-making. In: D. J. Flinders & S. J. Thornton (Eds.), Curriculum Studies Reader (4th ed.), pp. 11–18. New York, NY: RoutledgeFalmer. In 1918, then Professor of educational administration at the University of Chicago, Franklin Bobbitt, wrote the above essay which presented a theory of curriculum development, based on the … Continue reading
Curriculum theory: Give me a “for instance”
Kliebard, H. (1977). Curriculum theory: Give me a “for instance”. Curriculum Inquiry, 6(4), 257–269. Herbert Kliebard My scrapbook notes… Kliebard (2004) told us that from 1918–1927 curriculum was on its way, in 1927 it arrived? Define arrived exactly? Western societies had a curriculum before then, well before 1918 we differentiated sciences enough to be well on the way … Continue reading