Refocusing the Agenda of Public Education: District Mission Statements and the Manners of Democracy as a Way of Life

Mission statements and public statements of values are widely recognized as important for educational improvement, even if often ignored. The mission statements and supporting documents of Utah\u27s 41 school districts were analyzed to locate prominent themes and significant omissions. An unexpected and disturbing neglect of democratic citizenship aims was found. Recognizing democracy is a complex educational ideal, the author argues for refocusing mission aims on the distinctive qualities of democracy as a way of life to be lived in schools by identifying for both modeling and practice across the curriculum the distinctive manners of democracy beginning with but moving beyond voice and listening

The instructional media library Vol.9 : multi image media

v, 114 p.; 24 cm

The instructional media library Vol.11 : photography

v, 90 p.; 24 cm

Persons-centered History and the Field of Curriculum

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Bullough, Robert V., Jr., Persons-Centered History and the Field of Curriculum, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 1(Winter, 1979), 123-135.

Traces Bode\u27s contributions to persons-centered curriculum

Bullough, Robert V., Jr., Curriculum History: Flight to the Sidelines or Source of New Vitality? pp. 39-42 in Laurel N. Tanner, ed., Papers of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History, University Park, PA: The Society, College of Education, Penn State University, 1981. Reprinted pp. 32-39 as Curriculum History: Flight to the Sidelines, in Craig Kridel, ed., Curriculum History . Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989.

Provides a corrective on what is worth doing in curriculum history

Bullough, Robert V., Jr., Past Solutions to Current Problems in Curriculum Integration: The Contributions of Harold Alberty, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 14(Winter, 1999), 156-170.*

Explores Harold Alberty\u27s integrated or core designs for curriculum and their applicability today

Bullough, Robert V., Jr., Paul R. Klohr, a Hermenuetic Portrait, JCT, 17(Spring, 2001), 85-92.

Describes in personal terms the author\u27s mentor, Paul R. Klohr, and his contributions to the field of curriculum studies

Bullough, Robert V., Jr., Developing Interdisciplinary Researchers: What Ever Happened to the Humanities in Education? Educational Researcher, 35(November, 2006), 3-10.

Makes the case for balanced research that includes not only scientific but also humanistic inquiry in education; discusses implications for graduate research training