The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction or The Fate of Their Country

The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction

Author: F Michael Connelly

The Sage Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction emerges from a concept of curriculum and instruction as a diverse landscape defined and bounded by schools, school boards and their communities, policy, teacher education, and academic research. Each contributing author was asked to comprehensively review the research literature in their assigned topic. These topics, however, are defined by practical places on the landscape e.g. schools and governmental policies for schools.

Key Features:

• Presents a different vision or reconceptualization of the field
• Provides a comprehensive and inclusive set of authors, ideas, and topics
• Takes a global rather than North American parochial approach
• Recognizes that curriculum and instruction is broader in scope than is suggested by university research and theory
• Reflects post-1992 changes in curriculum policy, practice and scholarship
• Represents a rethinking of how school subject matter areas are treated

The contents of the Handbook are recognizable by high level practitioners with curriculum making jobs to do. Teacher education is included in the Handbook with the intent of addressing the role and place of teacher education in bridging state and national curriculum policies and curriculum as enacted in classrooms.

Meet the authors! phillion@purdue.edu 

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     viii
Introduction: Planning The Handbook: Practice, Context, and Theory   F. Michael Connelly   Ming Fang He   JoAnn Phillion   Candace Schlein     ix
Curriculum in Practice     1
Introductory Essay   Ian Westbury     1
Making Curriculum
Curriculum Policy and the Politics of What Should Be Learned in Schools   Ben Levin$dConsulting Authors: Geraldine Anne-Marie Connelly and Ulf P. Lundgren     7
Curriculum Planning: Content, Form, and the Politics of Accountability   Michael W. Apple$dConsulting Authors: Carlos Alberto Torres and Geoff Whitty     25
Making Curricula: Why Do States Make Curricula, and How?   Ian Westbury$dConsulting Authors: Stefan T. Hopmann and Leonard J. Waks     45
Subject Matter: Defining and Theorizing School Subjects   Zongyi Deng   Allan Luke$dConsulting Authors: John Chi-kin Lee and Margaret Placier     66
Managing Curriculum
Structuring Curriculum: Technical, Normative, and Political Considerations   Kevin G. Welner   Jeannie Oakes$dConsulting Authors: Michelle Fine and Kenneth R. Howe     91
Curriculum Implementation and Sustainability   Michael Fullan$dConsulting Authors: David Hopkins and James Spillane     113
Technology's Role in Curriculum and Instruction   Barbara Means$dConsulting Authors: Larry Cuban and Stephen T. Kerr     123
Curriculum in Context     145
Introductory Essay   Allan Luke     145
Diversifying Curriculum
Curriculum and Cultural Diversity   Gloria Ladson-Billings   Keffrelyn Brown$dConsulting Authors: Kathryn H. Au and Geneva Gay     153
Identity, Community, and Diversity: Retheorizing Multicultural Curriculum for the Postmodern Era   Sonia Nieto   Patty Bode   Eugenie Kang   John Raible$dConsulting Authors: Cherry A. McGee Banks and Sofia Villenas     176
Students' Experience of School Curriculum: The Everyday Circumstances of Granting and Withholding Assent to Learn   Frederick Erickson   Rishi Bagrodia   Alison Cook-Sather   Manuel Espinoza   Susan Jurow   Jeffrey J. Shultz   Joi Spencer$dConsulting Authors: Robert Boostrom and Pedro Noguera     198
Immigrant Students' Experience of Curriculum   Ming Fang He   JoAnn Phillion   Elaine Chan   Shijing Xu$dConsulting Authors: Jim Cummins and Stacey J. Lee     219
Teaching for Diversity: The Next Big Challenge   Mel Ainscow$dConsulting Authors: Chris Forlin and Roger Slee     240
Teaching Curriculum
Teacher Education as a Bridge? Unpacking Curriculum Controversies    Marilyn Cochran-Smith   Kelly E. Demers$dConsulting Authors: Ann Lieberman and Ana Maria Villegas     261
Cultivating the Image of Teachers as Curriculum Makers   Cheryl J. Craig   Vicki Ross$dConsulting Authors: Carola Conle and Virginia Richardson     282
Teachers' Experience of Curriculum: Policy, Pedagogy, and Situation   William Ayers   Therese Quinn   David O. Stovall   Libby Scheiern$dConsulting Authors: Freema Elbaz-Luwisch and Janet L. Miller     306
Internationalizing Curriculum
Indigenous Resistance and Renewal: From Colonizing Practices to Self-Determination   Donna Deyhle   Karen Swisher   Tracy Stevens   Ruth Trinidad Galvan$dConsulting Authors: Teresa L. McCarty and Linda Tuhiwai Smith     329
Globalization and Curriculum   Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt$dConsulting Authors: Lynne Paine and Fazel Rizvi     349
Community Education in Developing Countries: The Quiet Revolution in Schooling   Joseph P. Farrell$dConsulting Authors: Ash Hartwell and John N. Hawkins     369
Curriculum in Theory     391
Introductory Essay   William H. Schubert     391
Inquiring Into Curriculum
Curriculum Inquiry   William H. Schubert$dConsulting Authors: Craig Kridel and Edmund C. Short     399
Curriculum Policy Research    Edmund C. Short$dConsulting Author: Nina Basica     420
Hidden Research in Curriculum   Robin J. Enns$dConsulting Author: Margaret Haughey     431
Reenvisioning the Progressive Tradition in Curriculum   David T. Hansen   Rodino Anderson   Jeffrey Frank   Kiera Nieuwejaar$dConsulting Authors: Gert J. J. Biesta and Jim Garrison     440
What the Schools Teach: A Social History of the American Curriculum Since 1950   Barry M. Franklin   Carla C. Johnson$dConsulting Authors: Gary McCulloch and William J. Reese     460
Curriculum Development in Historical Perspective   J. Wesley Null$dConsulting Authors: Geoffrey Milburn and Wiel Veugelers     478
Curriculum Theory Since 1950: Crisis, Reconceptualization, Internationalization   William F. Pinar$dConsulting Authors: Donald Blumenfeld-Jones and Patrick Slattery     491
The Landscape of Curriculum and Instruction: Diversity and Continuity   F. Michael Connelly   Shijing Xu$dConsulting Authors: Elliot W. Eisner and Philip W. Jackson     514
Author Index     534
Subject Index     558
About the Editors     586
About the Part Editors     588
About the Consulting Authors     589
About the Contributing Authors     597

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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

Author: Michael F Holt

How partisan politics lead to the Civil War

What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcilable economies any more than from moral objections to slavery. Short-sighted politicians were to blame. Rarely looking beyond the next election, the two dominant political parties used the emotionally charged and largely chimerical issue of slavery's extension westward to pursue reelection and settle political scores, all the while inexorably dragging the nation towards disunion.

Despite the majority opinion (held in both the North and South) that slavery could never flourish in the areas that sparked the most contention from 1845 to 1861-the Mexican Cession, Oregon, and Kansas-politicians in Washington, especially members of Congress, realized the partisan value of the issue and acted on short-term political calculations with minimal regard for sectional comity. War was the result.

Including select speeches by Lincoln and others, The Fate of Their Country openly challenges us to rethink a seminal moment in America's history.

Publishers Weekly

University of Virginia historian Holt (The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party) provides an elegant, brief analysis of the partisan political forces that, via the great debate over the extension of slavery into the American West, eventually plunged the United States into civil war. Holt discounts the view that the war arose inevitably from two irreconcilable economies as well as the more na ve interpretation that it derived from righteous Northern outrage over slavery. Instead he argues that shortsighted and self-absorbed politicians from both the South and the North (their agendas focused, for the most part, on simple re-election) needlessly exploited the slavery-extension debate and escalated the associated rhetoric to a crescendo that finally made disunion inevitable. Holt provides brilliant thumbnail portraits of such key players as Abraham Lincoln, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Daniel Webster and Stephen A. Douglas. He also offers vitally lucid analyses of such key legislative issues as the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Stating his case in a nutshell, Holt writes, "At few other times in American history did policy makers' decisions have such a profound-and calamitous-effect on the nation as they did in the 1840s and 1850s." 8 pages of b&w illus. not seen by PW; map. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

While modern historians often focus on the activities of marginalized groups that lacked true political power, the well-respected Holt (history, Univ. of Virginia; The Political Crisis of the 1850s) reaffirms the importance of politics and politicians as he re-examines the often studied coming of the Civil War. This short volume reiterates a thesis Holt offered earlier in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, which declares that the war resulted from a series of political decisions and actions relating to the extension of slavery rather than moral or social differences over slavery. The earlier volume was applauded by scholars, but its length (1000+ pages) and detail were daunting to more casual readers. This concise book, with four chapters focusing on significant political events of the prewar period and a useful appendix of primary sources, makes Holt's theories available to a wider audience. Reference to the current conflict in Iraq demonstrates the continuing importance of Holt's approach. Likely to be used for years to come, this work is highly recommended for academic and public libraries of all sizes.-Theresa McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

It wasn't slavery per se but the debates about the extension of slavery into new territories and states that sent the nation careening into civil war, argues Holt (History/Univ. of Virginia) in a work that aims at a broader audience than did his The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party (1999). As in that comprehensive, scholarly history, the author returns to the era of presidents whose visages will never adorn Mt. Rushmore (Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan) and politicians whose personal interests trumped the interests of the nation. (Stephen A. Douglas worked hard for the transcontinental railroad, in part to make sure it would pass through some of his land holdings.) With the confidence born of intimate knowledge, Holt guides us through some extraordinary complexities: the Missouri Compromise, the Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He explores the reasoning and motivations of some of the most well-known names in American history, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. He does not, however, see much honor among the political thieves of the era. "Politicians made decisions," he writes, "from short-term calculations of partisan, factional, or personal advantage rather than from any long-term concern for the health, indeed, the very preservation of the Union." Holt implies that times have not changed much, and perhaps it was the contemporary parallels that led him, as he states in the text, to attempt both to sharpen the focus of his study of American Whigs and to attract a more general readership. He has certainly accomplished the former: few passages deal with anything other than politics, with glimpses of HarrietBeecher Stowe and John Brown providing occasional relief. But attracting a general readership is a more dubious proposition. Holt's prose is heavy, leaden, and veers at times into the inelegant. Important but occasionally tedious analysis of a most critical period in our history. (map; 8 pp. b&w illustrations, not seen)