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The Running Water and the Standing Stone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

James R. Squire*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois

Extract

Last September at an International Curriculum Conference at Oxford University, John Goodlad, Dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the prime movers of American education, pronounced the requiem for what he called the “discipline-centered” curriculum movement which began in 1951. Just as Progressive Education and its late-blooming progeny, Life Adjustment Education, dominated American educational thinking from the Thirties to the early Fifties, so “discipline centered” curriculum reform, beginning with establishment of the National Science Foundation in 1951 and the MLA's FL program a year later, seems now to have run its course. Thus Dean Goodlad looks for new commitments and new values to shape our teaching efforts during the generation ahead.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1968

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Footnotes

An address given at the General Meeting on English in Chicago, 27 December 1967.