CHAPTER I Curriculum: Foundations

M ODERN curriculum foundations rest on the synthesis of many disciplines. An adequate treatment of foundations therefore would be broad in scope. It would rest heavily upon the research reported in former issues of the REVIEW, especially those dealing with such factors as growth and develop-ment, citizenship education, and social foundations. This chapter sum-marizes merely the pertinent research and some of the general literature to show trends and highlight important developments in the field of the cur-riculum during the calendar years 1945-1947. Many of the studies reported here are comprehensive in scope, synthesizing philosophical, sociological, and psychological concepts which must underlie any consideration of cur-riculum foundations. Others, it is believed, are sufficiently specific to indi-cate clearly the philosophy and scientific background of curriculum research and revision. Rugg (39) undertook a synthesis of key concepts in the four foundations of American education which he delineates as: new biopsychology