School subjects and curriculum change : studies in curriculum history
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School subjects and curriculum change : studies in curriculum history
（Studies in curriculum history, 20）
Falmer Press, c1993
3rd ed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition of his seminal work. The position of subjects and their development within the curriculum is illustrated by looking at how school subjects, in particular, geography and biology, gained academic and intellectual respectability within the whole curriculum during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He highlights how subjects owe their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of 'worthwhile' knowledge and considers subjects as continually changing sub-groups of information. Such subjects from the framework of the society in which individuals live and over which they have influence. This volume questions the basis on which subject disciplines are developed and formulates new possibilities for curriculum development and reform in a post-modrnist age.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Becoming an academic subject - studies in the social history of the school curriculum: the growth of the English education system - changing patterns of curricula and examinations
- academic "subjects" and curriculum change. Part 2 School subjects - patterns of internal evolution: biology - aspects of subject history
- geography - aspects of subject history. Part 3 Relationships between subjects - the territorial nature of subject conflict: construction of an A level syllabus
- the defence of geography and biology
- the negotiation of environmental studies. Part 4 Conclusions, complexities and conjectures.
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