William Arbuckle Reid
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 Reid in British Columbia in 1989 |
William A. Reid (known as Bill Reid) is a well-known British curriculum theorist who was born in Gloucestershire in 1933. After obtaining his B.A. degree from Cambridge University, he first taught in English high schools.[1] He went on to conduct curriculum research at the University of Birmingham, where he obtained his Ph.D and subsequently taught M.Ed. students. He took early retirement from the University of Birmingham in 1988 and was appointed as a visiting professor at the London Institute of Education, and subsequently the University of Texas, Austin. He also undertook collaborative projects with colleagues at the University of Oslo and taught summer schools at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Some of his reminiscences were published in 2009 in "Leaders in Curriculum Studies", edited by E.C. Short and L.J. Waks (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2009). In retirement he has also published pamphlets and articles concerning archaeology studied in his native Cotswold landscape.
His major academic works elaborated on curriculum theorist Joseph Schwab's notion of "curriculum deliberation". He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, and was a regular contributor to the Journal of Curriculum Studies.
Works
- "Curriculum, Community, and Liberal Education: A Response to the Practical 4", Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 103-111
- "Curriculum as Institutionalized Learning: Implications for Theory and Research", Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Fall 2003, Volume 19, Number 1, Pages 29-43
- Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition (1999)
- William Arbuckle Reid, J. Wesley Null, ed. (1994). The Pursuit of Curriculum. Iap. ISBN 978-1-59311-507-4. (reprint IAP, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59311-507-4)
- Thinking about the Curriculum: The Nature and Treatment of Curriculum Problems (1978)
- William Arbuckle Reid, Decker F. Walker, ed. (1975). Case Studies in Curriculum Change: Great Britain and the United States. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7100-8037-0.
- Philip Hampson Taylor, William Arbuckle Reid, Brian Holley (1974). The English sixth form: a case study in curriculum research. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-7100-7832-2.
Reviews
In Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition, William Reid acknowledges curriculum studies’ debt to this Deweyan model of deliberation. He asserts that science’s ascendancy in curriculum planning at the turn of the century relegated philosophical deliberation to an inferior position but that Dewey’s works “kept the tradition alive”[2]
References
- ↑ The Pursuit of Curriculum, amazon.com
- ↑ "Editor's Review", Harvard Educational Review, Julie Pearson Stewart, Fall 1999
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