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.
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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)
