The Changing Curriculum

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. Topics covered include: - The relationship between Renaissance achievements and humanist education - The contribution made by educationists of the Civil War period who drew their inspiration from science rather than the classics. - The formation in the eighteenth century of "academic honeycombs" - groups of scholars concerned with the growth of science and technology. - Nineteenth century developments on art education and an assessment of the work of the scientific innovators.

R. R. Bolgar

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;