Curriculum

Franklin Bobbit was one of those dedicated to the construction of a science of education and, more than most, concerned himself with the application of scientific principles to the practical problems of schooling. The Curriculum is an effort to demonstrate how such principles could be used intelligently to go about the series and complex task of curriculum building. He later published How to Make a Curriculum. Both books became very famous and were seen as key elements in the scientific formation of curriculum for schools.

Brief Contents:

PART I. ENDS AND PROCESSES
I Two Levels of Educational Experience
II Educational Expedience upon the Play-Level
III. Educational Experience upon the Work-Level
IV. The Place or Ideas in Work-Experience
V. Where Education can be accomplished
VI. Scientific Method in Curriculum Making

PAET II. TRAINING FOR OCCUPATIONAL EFFICIENCY
VII. Purposes of Vocational Training
VIII Specialized Technical Training
IX. The Specialized Training of Group-Workers
X. Social Aspects of Occupational Training

PART III. EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP
XI. The Nature of the Good Citizen
XII. The Development of Enlightened Large-Group Consciousness
XIII. Moral and Religious Education

PART IV. EDUCATION FOR PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY
XIV. The Fundamental Task of Physical Training
XV. Physical Training
XVI, The Social Factors of Physical Efficiency

PART V. EDUCATION FOR LEISURE OCCUPATIONS
XVII. The Function of Play in Human Life
XVIII. Reading as a Leisure Occupation

PART VI. EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL INTERCOMMUNICATION
XIX. The Mother-Tongue
XX Training in Foreign Languages
XXI Some Concluding Considerations