The Curriculum

Contents: I. Ends and processes: 1. Two levels of educational experience. 2. Educational experience upon the play-level. 3. Educational experience upon the work level. 4. The place of ideas in work experience. 5. Where education can be accomplished. 6. Scientific method in curriculum making. II. Training for occupational efficiency: 7. Purposes of vocational training. 8. Specialized technical training. 9. The specialized training of group workers. 10. Social aspects of occupational training. III. Education for citizenship: 11. The nature of the good citizen. 12. The development of enlightened large-group consciousness. 13. Moral and religious education. IV. Education for physical efficiency: 14. The fundamental task of physical training. 15. Physical training. 16. The social factors of physical efficiency. V. Education for leisure Occupations: 17. The function of play on human life. 18. Reading as a leisure occupation. VI. Education for social intercommunication: 19. The mother tongue. 20. Training in foreign languages. 21. Some concluding considerations. Index.

"This six volume collection includes some of the best works written on the curriculum studies. The purpose of the series is to discuss and debate major trends and developments in the formative period of the subject when curriculum studies were still not an independent area of study.   

The collection covers the key points of dispute and areas of controversy within the field of curriculum studies and includes works of some of the leading writers of their times." (jacket)