Chapter 3- Historical Foundations of Curriculum

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Chapter 3- Historical Foundations of Curriculum
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The Colonial Period1642-1776

• Massachusetts- Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
• Middle Atlantic
• South

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Colonial Schools

• Town School
• Parochial and private Schools
• Latin Grammar Schools
• Boston Latin Grammar School 1635
• The Academy
• College

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Textbooks and Readers

• The Hornbook
• The New England Primer

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The National Period 1776-1850

• Benjamin Rush
• Thomas Jefferson
• Noah Webster
• William Holmes McGuffey
• McGuffey Readers

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Nineteenth-Century European Educators

• Pestalozzi
• Froebel
• Herbart
• Spencer
• What knowledge is most worth?

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Universal Education

• Monitorial Schools
• Common Schools
• The Academy
• The High School
• James Conant

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The Transitional Period 1893-1918

• Committee of Fifteen on Elementary Education
• Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies
• Committee on College Entrance Requirements

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A Modern Curriculum

• Flexner
• Dewey
• Judd
• Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary
  Education
• Cardinal Principles

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Seven Cardinal Principles

• Health
• Command of the Fundamentals
• Worthy Home Membership
• Vocation
• Citizenship
• Leisure
• Ethical Character

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Curriculum as a Field

• Bobbitt and Charters
• Kilpatrick
• The Twenty-Sixth Yearbook
• Rugg and Caswell
• Eight Year Study
• Tyler

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Tylers Basic Principles

• What educational purposes should the school seek
  to attain?
• What educational experiences can be provided that
  are likely to attain these purposes?
• How can these educational experiences be
  effectively organized?
• How can we determine whether these purposes are
  being attained?