Subject knowledge : Readings for the Study of School Subjects

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Subject knowledge : Readings for the Study of School Subjects

Ivor F. Goodson with Christopher J. Anstead and J. Marshall Mangan

(Falmer Press teachers' library series)

Falmer Press, 1998

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Description

School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s. Goodson's analysis of his own work in the UK and North America examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.

Table of Contents

  • The need for curriculum history
  • becoming a school subject
  • the micro- politics of curriculum change - European studies
  • on explaining curriculum change
  • subject status and curriculum change
  • subjects and the everyday life of schooling
  • subject cultures and the introduction of classroom computers
  • computer studies as symbolic and ideological action
  • on curriculum form
  • nation at risk and National Curriculum.

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  • NCID
    BA33034114
  • ISBN
    • 0750707275
    • 0750707267
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 170 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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