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Fundamentals of Curriculum Development  

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  • First published in 1950 and then revised in 1957, the synoptic curriculum text, Fundamentals of Curriculum Development, by B. Othanel Smith, William O. Stanley, and J. Harlan Shores set the standard for synoptic texts of the 1950s. The conceptualization provided by these authors influenced scholarship on curriculum development for the 1950s, the 1960s, and well into the 1970s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Fundamentals of Curriculum Development]

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