Reviews for Curriculum and Consequence: Herbert M. Kliebard and the Promise of Schooling

The average rating for Curriculum and Consequence: Herbert M. Kliebard and the Promise of Schooling based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-28 00:00:00 Robert Fincham In the first time i read this book, it was really confusing to follow the author's descriptions of the journey of Latin education in Italy since the twelfth century. A historiographical perspective used by Black made the first chapters fulfilled with many traditional curricula changed years to years, manuscripts, names, and terms, so that it seems like a brief encyclopedia of a journey of curricula and syllabi in Italy in developing her education. But for they who really want to observe the history of education in Italy, of course, this could be a good reference encounter them with educational growth and developments especially after the thirteenth century - as we know from George Makdisi, when Italy underwent the counter-revolution with the great civilization of the time namely Islam. And then dressed with a very new fashion through the rise of universities and professionalization. It may be better to do a comparison between this Black's book and The Rise of Colleges' Makdisi.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-04 00:00:00 Jeremy Matches A decent history of Cambridge. I was thrown by the decision to make the last chapter the first. First the author discusses Cambridge in the 20th century then goes back to the beginning. I would have found what I was reading in the first chapter more relevant had I the background of the following chapters. Aside from that minor quibble, it was an educational read.