Transitional Period and adaptation to the Industrial Revolution:

William Harris- He’s proposed curriculum was a mix of essentialism and perennialism that leads to view
his curriculum as rigorously academic.

Charles Eliot- He allowed different rates of learning for the students that leads to independent learning.
He proposed to change pedagogical method from memorization to comprehension and problem-
solving.

Creating the Modern Curriculum: arguing that classics had no greater mental value than the other
subjects

Abraham Flexner- contended that Latin had “no purpose” in the curriculum and that the classics were
out of step with scientific development.

John Dewey- The aims of education went hand and hand with the particular type of society involve.

Charles Judd- He emphasize science and math problems applicable in everyday life. he argued that
students would be prepared to deal with the changing world and the problems they would encounter as
adults.