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Curriculum and Culture
Schooling in a Pluralist Society
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book demonstrates how it is possible to value, respect and utilise cultural diversity and yet achieve a ‘good education’ for all. The authors contend that few issues in education can be examined in isolation from the world outside. This must surely apply to the question of cultural, social and...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Curriculum Practice
Some Sociological Case Studies
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
When first published this book was one of the first collections of empirical research in the area of the knowledge transmitted in schools and the responses of students to it. It includes studies of the histories of particular school subjects and of how the knowledge they embody is presented in the...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Defining The Curriculum
Histories and Ethnographies
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
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...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Class, Culture and the Curriculum
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Theory and Practice of Curriculum Studies
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This book deals with curriculum issues and problems, and one of its aims is to help practising teachers to clarify their own theory and practice in relation to the curriculum. The contributors look at three popular theories or sets of assumptions held by teachers: the child-centred view of...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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The Politics of the School Curriculum
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
If the curriculum can be defined as a ‘selection from the culture of society’, the central question then becomes ‘who selects’. This volume answers this question, reviewing various aspects of the curriculum and its planning. For many years the control of the curriculum was uncontroversial. In the...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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The Moral Curriculum
A Sociological Analysis
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Teachers are, and always have been seen as agents of respectability in our society, but today this role is far less easily defined than it once was. Now, for most teachers, the whats and hows of moral behaviour, guidance and instruction have become debatable issues. In this book the author gives us...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Towards A Compulsory Curriculum
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Written prior to the introduction of the national curriculum, this volume argued for precisely that: a broad framework of a compulsory education at national level for all schools. The author considers the question of the content of his proposed compulsory curriculum in terms of principles derived...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Case Studies in Curriculum Change
Great Britain and the United States
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
One of the educationist’s major concerns today is to find effective ways of translating new goals for the curriculum into classroom practices. American and British contributions analyse curriculum change as it actually occurs, with people, institutions and constraints of time and money acknowledged...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set B: Curriculum Theory 15 vol set
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Mini-set B: Curriculum Theory re-issues 15 volumes originally published between 1973 and 1993 and covers curriculum theory, changes in curricula and the politics and sociology of the school curriculum....
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge