1. Talking Points for William Doll’s Take on Scientific Curriculum-Making
A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum
Ch. 2: Curriculum Carryovers
By William Doll, Jr.

2. Who is Doll? Professor of Education at LSU
Interest in Dewey and spirituality
Serves on the Journal of the John Dewey Society

3. Key Ideas & Personalities
Frederick Taylor & Scientific Management
“Equal division of the work between management and workmen”
Thus begins a division for curriculum specialists and administrators and teachers
Technical efficiency – bells, set class times, etc.
Cardinal virtues of schooling: regularity, punctuality, silence, and industry

4. More Ideas & People
Focus is not on deficits of being, but on powers of becoming
All movements ultimately succumbed to scientific management
Saturday Evening Post, other popular publications tout it
Enter Ralph Tyler – Basic Principals of Curriculum and Instruction

5. Ideas and People con’t
Tyler looked at difference between educational goals and curriculum goals
Objectives are paramount – first half of his book
Difference between Tyler and Dewey – Dewey felt learning should be experiential, while Tyler felt learning should have specific measurable outcomes