A post-modern perspective on curriculum Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Modern Paradigm: A Closed Vision	19
Ch. 1	Descartes' and Newton's World Views	23
	Pre-Modern Order	23
	Descartes' Method	26
	Newton's Stable Universe	33
Ch. 2	Curriculum Carryovers	39
	America and Technology	39
	The Scientific Curriculum	47
	The Tyler Rationale	52
Pt. II	The Post-Modern Paradigm: An Open Vision	57
Ch. 3	Piaget and Living Systems	63
	The Biological World-View	63
	Evolution and Entropy - Problems and Promises	72
	Piaget's Equilibrium Model	79
Ch. 4	Prigogine and Chaotic Order	86
	Concepts of Chaos	86
	Ilya Prigogine, Self-Organization, and Dissipative Structures	98
Ch. 5	The Cognitive Revolution, Bruner, and a New Epistemology	109
	Concepts of Cognition	109
	Bruner	118
	A New Epistemology	124
Ch. 6	Dewey, Whitehead, and Process Thought	133
	Traditions of Permanence, Change, and Interpretation	133
	John Dewey and the Concept of Process	137
	Alfred North Whitehead and the Concept of Process	142
	Process Thought Beyond Dewey and Whitehead	148
Pt. III	An Educational Vision	155
Ch. 7	Constructing a Curriculum Matrix	161
	Curriculum Concepts	161
	The Four R's - An Alternative to the Tyler Rationale	174
	References	185
	Index	205
	About the Author	215