Newmann, Fred M.

"Dr. Fred M. Newmann", Emeritus Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin Madison, began his education career teaching high school history and social studies in 1959. Dissatisfied with prevailing curriculum and instruction, he completed doctoral studies at Harvard and began to attack the broader question: In what ways can institutions, especially schools, in a modern culture be shaped to enhance community?

This led to research and development of social studies and civic education curriculum, to planning an alternative school, to studies of alienation in secondary scho...