Defining The Curriculum - Histories and Ethnographies (Hardcover)

This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school subjects. The first section of the book outlines the theoretical and methodological basis for the study off school subjects, and the reasons for and the possibilities of such a study are considered. In the second section some histories of school curricula are presented from a variety of settings -- colonial schools in Africa, working-class schools of the nineteenth century, nursery schools -- and the conflicting forces of determination and change in school subjects are identified and examined. The third section focuses on the contemporary school situation and the papers isolate and investigate some of the interest groups and social processes which enter into or affect the realization of school knowledge in the classroom.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Education
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1984
Editors:	Ivor F. Goodson • Stephen Ball
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-66967-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Curriculum planning & development
LSN:	0-415-66967-7
Barcode:	9780415669672

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