Routledge Library Editions: Education 2011 Online Catalogue

Sense and Nonsense and the National Curriculum

Edited by Michael Barber, Duncan Graham

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Originally written after four years of the National Curriculum, at a time when adjustments and radical changes were being implemented, this book analyses from various points of view what is wrong with the National Curriculum and presents a series of options for putting it right....

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Common Sense and the Curriculum

By Robin Barrow

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes on to offer a comprehensive and stringent critique of a variety of principles for the selection of curriculum content, with...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Curriculum and Culture

Schooling in a Pluralist Society

Edited by Leslie Claydon, Tony Knight, Marta Rado

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

Crisis in the Curriculum

Edited by E Cuff, George Payne

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This collection of papers surveys key aspects of the curriculum, investigates the present situation and discusses what improvements need to be made. It is contributed by teachers, educational advisers and researchers and ranges across a variety of different institutional teaching settings and a...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Individual Development and the Curriculum

By Kieran Egan

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this...

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Defining The Curriculum

Histories and Ethnographies

Edited by Ivor F. Goodson, Stephen Ball

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

Curriculum Practice

Some Sociological Case Studies

Edited by Martyn Hammersley, Andy Hargreaves

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

Regenerating the Curriculum

By Maurice Holt

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Since the ‘Great Debate’ on education was launched in 1976, the need to bring greater coherence to the secondary curriculum has been generally recognized but to be effective, a new curriculum design must be implemented, and the process of planned educational change must be understood. Regenerating...

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Rethinking Curriculum Studies

Edited by Martin Lawn, Len Barton

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its problems. It provides a radical critique of the whole area,...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Class, Culture and the Curriculum

By Denis Lawton

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...

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The Politics of the School Curriculum

By Denis Lawton

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...

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Theory and Practice of Curriculum Studies

By Denis Lawton

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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The Moral Curriculum

A Sociological Analysis

By P Musgrave

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...

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Case Studies in Curriculum Change

Great Britain and the United States

Edited by William Reid, Decker F. Walker

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...

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Towards A Compulsory Curriculum

By John White

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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