This article identifies the contradictions in some of the existing applications of literary tools to curriculum thought, indicates some of the problematic implications for curriculum practice, and sketches an alternative conception of literature as discursive practice. (Author/MLF)

Originally delivered as a speech to the American Educational Research Association, this article continues the debate over whether the field of curriculum is first, dead, and second, actually a field. (MLF)

Comments on a previous paper analyzing the meaning of "curriculum." (MLF)

In language education, several recent curricular developments from expressive writing to interactional reading share a common core of assumptions rooted in British Romanticism. This article compares central tenets of the New Literacy and Romanticism, focusing on the former's reconceptualization of the teacher, the student, and the language arts…

Presents an essay review of Reid and Walker's "Case Studies in Curriculum Change." (Author/MLF)

Replies to Rist's unfavorable evaluation of Barone's own article critiquing the arts program of a black elementary school. Argues that quantitative social science research has unsuccessfully modeled itself on scientific methodology, but camouflages its subjectivity and fictionalizes the entire research undertaking. Crafting an educational…

Discusses the genre of writing labeled "New Journalism" for useful writing styles, devices, techniques, and formats that could be applied to discover and effectively convey what happens in schools. (Author/MLF)

A Marxian analysis of the form and content of children's Revolutionary War fiction shows how characteristics of these materials are related to the socioeconomic and historical milieu from which they come. Structural similarities between these novels and Western films reveal historically rooted bourgeois attitudes, social values, and ideologies.…