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, 1900–1920 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

"This is an excellent, carefully edited, well-produced curriculum reader that deserves to do very well indeed, if only because it embodies so much that James B. Macdonald taught about the study of the curriculum; namely that it is a human endeavor, not a scientific pursuit." — Comparative Education Review