The Moribund Curriculum Field: Its Wake and Our Work

Politics of Curriculum: Origins, Controversies, and Significance of Critical Perspectives

“…At that time, the curriculum field, many readers will recall, was judged as moribund, dead, and arrested by Joseph Schwab (1970), Dwayne Huebner (1976), and William Pinar (1978), respectively. Concerns and questions notwithstanding, no commentator would regard the present field in these terms.…”

Book Reviews

“…Even reasoned efforts to unify the faithful and restore the sense of community mostly missing since the 1960s sometimes did the opposite. For instance, Huebner (1976) re-emphasized the ontological basis in curriculum work for the locus of subject matter. Of Dewey's three loci, subject matter was then the least emphasized by THE CORPUS AND THE INCORPOREAL OF CURRICULUM 87 the faithful, no doubt in reaction to the idolatries of the 1960s, but perhaps also because it was the least emphasized by Schwab's reinterpretation of Dewey.…”

Stepping Outside the Barred Room: Building Coalitions to Advance Shared Principles

“…It has been a little more than 40 years since Schwab (1969) declared the field moribund, and 35 years since Huebner (1976) pronounced it dead. Over the years, it has been noted by numerous scholars that the curriculum field has been in a state of crisis (e.g., Barrow, 1984;Greene, 1975;Grumet, 1990;Huebner, 1962;Pinar, Reynolds, Slattery, & Taubman, 1995;Reid, 1986).…”