Rhetoric Review Jun 2010

Restructuring English and Society through an Integrated Curriculum: Ruth Mary Weeks'sA Correlated Curriculum

Suzanne Bordelon San Diego State University

Abstract

Some scholars trace the start of writing across the curriculum to the 1970s. However, in 1929, when appointed president of the National Council of Teachers of English, Ruth Mary Weeks initiated A Correlated Curriculum (1936), a significant interdisciplinary project that specifically viewed English as the mechanism for achieving an integrated curriculum. Although her goal was not fully realized, Weeks's efforts are important in their attempts to open education to broader classes of students, to promote learning as a collaborative process, to prepare all students to meet the demands of transforming social and industrial circumstances, and, ultimately, to restructure industrial America.

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Rhetoric Review
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2010-06-23
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10.1080/07350198.2010.485964
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