The Practical Schwab

The practical: Schwab is best remembered for the last and most comprehensive of his critiques of education, focused on curriculum making. From 1969 to 1986 Schwab produced six articles (the last two unpublished) on the various dimensions of the The Practical. The Practical argues that five bodies of disciplines and experience be represented interdependently to conduct fair curriculum revision. Schwab called four of these the "commonplaces" of educational thinking, which require representatives of the affected learners, teachers, subject matters, and (sociocultural) milieux. The fifth is that of the curriculum specialist, who must work with the other representatives to ensure that the commonplaces are properly coordinated, because changes in any one will have consequences for the others.