Take Action!

1. Search two outstanding personalities in the cluster of Curriculum Foundation who

contributed to curriculum development. Write a short biography about these persons.
You may find other personalities not included in the list in this lesson.
 Philisophical Foundations

Allan Ornstein is a Professor of Education and Social Policy at St. John's University. He
is a former Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and consultant for more than 60 government and
education agencies, including Educational Testing Service, American Federation of
Teachers, and the New York City and Chicago Board of Education. Dr. Ornstein is the
author of some 400 articles and 60 books.

In the last 10 years, he has published 19 books. They are:

1. Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA:

Wadsworth, 2004).
2. Curriculum: Foundations, Principles and Issues, 4th ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
2004).
3. Strategies for Effective Teaching, 4th ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004).
4. Secondary and Middle School Methods (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2005).
5. Foundations of Educations, 9th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
6. Instructional Methods K-8 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
7. Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, 4th ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2007).
8. Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class (Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
9. Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices, 5th ed. (Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth, 2008).
10. Foundations of Education, 10th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
11. Curriculum: Foundations, Principles and Issues, 5th ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
2008).
12. Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, 5th ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2011).
13. Foundations of Education, 11th ed. (Belmont, CA: Cengage, 2012).
14. Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices, 6th ed. (Belmont, CA:
Cengage, 2012).
15. Wealth vs. Work: How 1% Victimize 99% (Indiana: Author House, 2012).
16. The Practice of Teaching (Glencoe, IL: 2012).
17. Curriculum: Foundations, Practice and Issues, 6th ed. (Boston: Pearson, 2013).
18. Foundations of Education, 12th ed. (Belmont, CA: Cengage, 2014).
19. Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, 6th ed. (Boston: Pearson, 2015).