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Wesley Null is vice provost for undergraduate education at Baylor University. He also serves as an associate professor of curriculum and foundations of education in the School of Education and acting director in the Honors College. He teaches curriculum theory and educational history in the School of Education and great texts in the Honors College.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is Curriculum and Why Does it Matter?
Part I: Curriculum Traditions
Chapter 1: Liberal Education (and Curriculum) for All
Chapter 2: Systematic Curriculum
Chapter 3: Existentialist Curriculum
Chapter 4: Radical Curriculum
Chapter 5: Pragmatic Curriculum
Chapter 6: Deliberative Curriculum
Part II: Curriculum Practice
Chapter 7: What Should We Do with State Curriculum Standards?
Chapter 8: How Can We Reestablish a Core Curriculum at Our University?
Chapter 9: What Should We Do to Create a Better Teacher Ed Curriculum?
Chapter 10: Curriculum with Virtue: A Future for Deliberative Curriculum
Appendix A: Curriculum Dilemmas
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
About the Author
Curriculum: From Theory to Practice gives its readers a powerful framework that embraces both classical and contemporary theorists for the mapping of traditions in education, curricula, and curriculum-making. At the same time, it makes a case for the importance of a deliberative tradition of educational thought that can embrace the theory and the practice of the book's title as well as the moral and the practical. I look forward to introducing students to the curriculum field by way of this book.
— Ian Westbury, Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wesley Null combines in this work the deft hand of an educational historian with the knowledge and skill of a curriculum scholar. His analysis of the deliberative curriculum—and its attendant synthesis through the work of past and present curriculum thinkers—is both original and imaginative. Not only is the theory of curriculum examined, but the foundation is provided for students and practitioners to make meaning of the field in all its processes and outcomes. Null's commitment to balance in curricular theory and practice is exemplary. This well-crafted and thoughtful book is a noteworthy contribution to the arena of curriculum studies.
— John A. Beineke, Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and Currriculum, Arkansas State University
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