Introduction
1. Values and Politics in the Curriculum
Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple
I. Curriculum: Its Past and Present
2. The Effort to Reconstruct the Modern American Curriculum
Herbert M. Kliebard
3. Contestation and Curriculum: The Efforts of American Socialists, 19001920
Kenneth N. Teitelbaum
4. What Goes on in Classrooms? Is This the Way We Want It?
Kenneth A. Sirotnik
II. Curriculum and Planning
5. Models of Curriculum Planning
George J. Posner
6. Multicultural Curricula: "Whose Knowledge?" and Beyond
Susan E. Noffke
7. What We've Learned from "Living in the Future"
Barbara Brodhagen, Gary Weilbacher, and James A. Beane
III. Curriculum and Knowledge Selection
8. Curriculum Platforms and Moral Stories
Thomas E. Barone and Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones
9. The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook
Michael W. Apple
10. Democracy and the Curriculum
George H. Wood
IV. Curriculum and the Work of Teachers
11. Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Gloria Ladson-Billings
12. Teaching, Gender, and Curriculum
Sara E. Freedman
13. Schooling for Democracy: What Kind?
Landon E. Beyer
V. Curriculum and Technology
14. The Regime of Technology in Education
Douglas D. Noble
15. A Critical Analysis of Three Approaches to the Use of Computers in Education
Michael J. Streibel
16. Teaching and Technology: The Hidden Effects of Computers on Teachers and Students
Michael W. Apple
VI. Curriculum and Evaluation
17. The Human Problems and Possibilities of Curriculum Evaluation
George Willis
18. Developing Curriculum through School Self-Evaluation
Helen Simons
19. Democratic Evaluation: Aesthetic, Ethical Stories in Schools
Landon E. Beyer and Jo Anne Pagano
Contributors
Index