Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative TraditionThis volume brings together a collection of essays by William A. Reid that present and elaborate the deliberative tradition of curriculum theory, and examine the implications of a deliberative perspective for approaches to policy making and school systems. The essays illustrate the development of Reid's understanding of the deliberative tradition and his efforts to extend it from a focus on practice to one that embraces conceptions of schooling as an institution. Institution and practice are the key concepts which guide and illuminate the central thesis of the book: To be effective, a theory of curriculum must be able to talk not only about questions of desirable practice, but also about questions of how practice may be aided or constrained by the nature of the institution within which it takes place. This significant new contribution to the literature of curriculum studies: *represents a unique attempt to synthesize what have often been treated as quite separate issues: questions of the philosophical basis for curriculum decision making, questions of processes of decision making, and questions of the nature of schools and classrooms; *presents its material in an evolutionary way, focusing on the continuing development of ideas, rather than on a "rhetoric of conclusions"; and *offers a summing up of thought and achievement in the deliberative tradition that is not otherwise available. |
Contents
Practical Reasoning and Curriculum Decisions | |
The Method of the Practical | |
Curriculum Research Within a Practical Perspective | |
Schwabs Conception of Liberal Education | |
Does Schwab Improve on Tyler? | |
CURRICULUM AS INSTITUTION | |
The Problem of Curriculum Change | |
Curricular Topics as Institutional Categories | |
Curriculum Change and the Evolution of Educational Constituencies | |
On the Origins of the Institutional Categories of Schooling | |
The Institutional Character of the Curriculum of Schooling | |
A Glossary | |
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