How do curriculum, conceptions of knowledge and the schooling
experiences of young people engage the great issues of this
tumultuous time? Curriculum is always influenced by the events that
shape our world, but when testing and bench-marking preoccupy us,
we can forget the world that is both the foundation and the object
of curriculum. This edited volume brings together international
contributors to analyze and reflect on the way the events of the
last decade have influenced the curriculum in their countries. As
they address nationalism in the face of economic globalisation, the
international financial crisis, immigration and the culture of
diaspora, they ask how national loyalties are balanced with
international relationships and interests. They ask how the rights
of women, and of ethnic and racial groups are represented. They ask
what has changed about history and civics post 9/11, and they ask
how countries that have experienced profound political and economic
changes have addressed them in curriculum.
These interactions and changes are a subject of particular
interest for an international yearbook in that they are almost
always permeated by global movements and influenced by
multinational bodies and practices. And as these essays show, in
curriculum, global and international issues are explicitly or
implicitly also about local and national interests and about how
citizens engage their rights and responsibilities.
This volume brings together a new approach to perspectives on
curriculum today and a new collection of insights into the changes
from different parts of the world which discuss:
- How is the world represented in curriculum?
- How do responses to world events shape the stories we tell
students about who they are and can be?
This book will be of great benefit to educational researchers
and policy-makers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate
students.
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