Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education: Selected EssaysWhat is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's essays on these questions have influenced education internationally for more than twenty-five years. Schwab participated in what Daniel Bell has described as the "most thoroughgoing experiment in general education in any college in the United States," the College of the University of Chicago during the thirties, forties, and fifties. He played a central role in the curriculum reform movement of the sixties, and his extraordinary command of science, the philosophy of science, and traditional and modern views of liberal education found expression in these exceptionally thoughtful essays. |
Contents
The ThreeYear Program in the Natural Sciences | 43 |
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge as Related to Liberal | 68 |
A Discussion of One Aspect | 105 |
The Uses of Diversity | 133 |
Enquiry and the Reading Process | 149 |
The Impossible Role of the Teacher in Progressive | 167 |
What Do Scientists Do? | 184 |
Education and the Structure of the Disciplines | 229 |
Testing and the Curriculum | 275 |
A Language for Curriculum | 287 |
Arts of Eclectic | 322 |
Translation into Curriculum | 365 |
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