A survey of curricular history reveals alternate preoccupation with academic and student-centered educational goals. Student-centered and academic goals are insufficient indepen dently and an integration of the two would strengthen and affirm each, says this author, who uses the ideas of John Dewey to provide a methodology and rationale for the inte gration of the two areas.
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