ABSTRACT
In citing love, friendship, marriage, divorce, child rearing and family living as important activities of life that children should study from both the “outside” and “within,” “The Disciplines and the Curriculum,” the earliest published paper in this collection, links Parts One and Two of the volume. The essay also introduces the work that follows. Even when I did not explicitly cite it in my later writings on curriculum, my thinking was affected by its explication of the knowledge-curriculum connection, its distinction between school subjects and subject matter, its metaphor of curriculum space, its account of the educational force of the Doctrine of Verstehen.
