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This chapter delves into the pedagogic shifts over the twentieth century from teacher to student-centered curriculum, as well as culturally and politically centered curriculum. What is at the center of the curriculum is an essential question that continues to challenge educators. This chapter examines how educators have attempted to modify the curriculum by re-centering it in response to the child, especially to reflect sociocultural and political elements of children’s lived experiences. In examining these appeals for curriculum to be more responsive to all students, this chapter asks how educators have attempted to make curricula more equitable over the twentieth century. The sources for this chapter offer educators and students calling for more responsive curricula for diverse students from different eras and regions including appeals for attention in the curriculum to the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history in the 1930s, making the curriculum accessible to persons who are deaf in the 1960s, and incorporating the experiences of women of all backgrounds into the curriculum in the 1970s.
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Ryan, A.M., Tocci, C., Moon, S. (2020). What Is at the Center of the Curriculum?. In: The Curriculum Foundations Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34428-3_4
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