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Talking Points for William Doll’s Take on Scientific Curriculum-Making. A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum Ch. 2: Curriculum Carryovers By William Doll, Jr. Who is Doll?. Professor of Education at LSU Interest in Dewey and spirituality Serves on the Journal of the John Dewey Society.
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Talking Points for William Doll’sTake on Scientific Curriculum-Making A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum Ch. 2: Curriculum Carryovers By William Doll, Jr.
Who is Doll? • Professor of Education at LSU • Interest in Dewey and spirituality • Serves on the Journal of the John Dewey Society
Key Ideas & Personalities • Frederick Taylor & Scientific Management • “Equal division of the work between management and workmen” • Thus begins a division for curriculum specialists and administrators and teachers • Technical efficiency – bells, set class times, etc. • Cardinal virtues of schooling: regularity, punctuality, silence, and industry
More Ideas & People • Focus is not on deficits of being, but on powers of becoming • All movements ultimately succumbed to scientific management • Saturday Evening Post, other popular publications tout it • Enter Ralph Tyler – Basic Principals of Curriculum and Instruction
Ideas and People con’t • Tyler looked at difference between educational goals and curriculum goals • Objectives are paramount – first half of his book • Difference between Tyler and Dewey – Dewey felt learning should be experiential, while Tyler felt learning should have specific measurable outcomes