Changing Curriculum

<p>This was originally published in 1971.Recent years have seen a renewal of interest in the field of curriculum development. Until now, however, relatively little account has been taken of the historical aspects of curriculum change. </p><p>Topics covered include:</p><ol> <p> </p> <li>The relationship between Renaissance achievements and humanist education</li> <p> </p> <li>The contribution made by educationists of the Civil War period who drew their inspiration from science rather than the classics.</li> <p> </p> <li>The formation in the eighteenth century of "academic honeycombs" – groups of scholars concerned with the growth of science and technology.</li> <p> </p> <li>Nineteenth century developments on art education and an assessment of the work of the scientific innovators.</li> </ol> Chapter 1 Humanist education and its contribution to the Renaissance, R. R. Bolgar; Chapter 2 Science and the challenge to the scholastic curriculum 1640–1660, Charles Webster; Chapter 3 Augustan academic honeycombs: some eighteenth-century conventicles of science, W. H. G. Armytage; Chapter 4 The Curriculum of training in the fine arts in the nineteenth century, H. C. Morgan; Chapter 5 Prologue to heurism, W. H. Brock; Chapter 6 The need for a history of higher education, E. G. Edwards;