Forging the American Curriculum

Herbert M. Kliebard was a historian of education and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is best known for his 1995 book, The Struggle for the American Curriculum.

• Introduction Part 1: Essays in Curriculum History 1. The Decline of Humanistic Studies in the American School Curriculum (1984) 2. The Liberal Arts Curriculum and Its Enemies: The Effort to Redefine General Education (1988) 3. Keeping Out of Nature’s Way: The Rise and Fall of Child Study as the Basis for Curriculum, 1880-1905 (1992) 4. Dewey and the Herbartians: The Genesis of a Theory of Curriculum (1981) 5. The Rise of Scientific Curriculum-Making and its Aftermath (1975) 6. Success and Failure in Educational Reform: Are There Historical ‘Lessons’? (1989) Part 2: Essays in Curriculum Theory 7. Bureaucracy and Curriculum Theory (1971) 8. What Is the Question in Teacher Education? (1973) 9. The Tyler Rationale (1970) 10. Curriculum Theory: Give Me a "For Instance" (1976) 11. Vocational Education as Symbolic Action: Connecting Schooling with the Workplace (1990) 12. Curriculum Theory as Metaphor (1982)