On Curriculum Form: Notes toward a Theory of Curriculum.

Y

10

Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Academic Ability; Curriculum Development; Educational History; Educational Objectives; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Secondary Education; Social Stratification; Student Interests

0038-0407

Discusses the polarized educational system that emerged in Great Britain between 1770 and 1850, based upon student mentality levels. Explains that the differing treatment of higher and lower mentalities was incorporated into a system of separate schools. Describes the system as an institutionalization of the mental and manual divisions of labor into curricular divisions. (DK)

1992

EJ447921