Curriculum in Tension
History • Theory • Purpose
Baudelaire K. Ulysse, Ed.D.
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Curriculum in Tension: History, Theory, and the Struggle for Educational Purpose from Dewey to the Age of Standardization
By Baudelaire K. Ulysse, Ed.D.
This book examines one of the most enduring questions in educational thought: what is curriculum for? Moving from Dewey’s democratic imagination to the contemporary age of testing, accountability, and standardization, it traces how curriculum became a site of philosophical conflict, political struggle, and institutional narrowing.
About the Book
Curriculum in Tension is a scholarly work on the historical and philosophical struggle over educational purpose. It follows the movement of curriculum thought from progressive democratic visions toward technocratic systems that increasingly reduce education to measurement, compliance, and labor-market utility. Rather than treating this transformation as inevitable, the book recovers the deeper intellectual and moral arguments that once animated curriculum discourse.
By placing Dewey and his successors into conversation with later curricular traditions and contemporary standardization regimes, the book illuminates how educational institutions have drifted away from richer conceptions of citizenship, judgment, ethical formation, and public life. It is written for scholars, educators, graduate students, and serious readers interested in curriculum theory, democratic education, and the future of schooling.
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