Beyond the National Curriculum: Curricular Centralism and Cultural Diversity in Europe and the USA

by Coulby; DAVID

• ISBN13: 9780750709736
• ISBN10: 0750709731
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-08
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Increasingly, politicians are looking for quick fixes from around the world to solve what they see as problemsin the educational system. Drawing on insights from other European curricular systems, this book will contribute, in a timely way, to the current debates on educational reform.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introductory Remarks	1	(2)
Introduction: Transitions in Europe and the Central Role of Knowledge	3	(9)
Europe in Transition	3	(1)
Eastern Europe in Transition	4	(2)
Western Europe in Transition	6	(1)
Education in Times of Transition	7	(3)
Exemplification and Rhetorical Devices	10	(1)
Discussion Questions	11	(1)
Further Reading	11	(1)
The State Control of Knowledge	12	(14)
Knowledge Selection and Knowledge Selectors	12	(3)
Level of Control. Rigour of Control	15	(3)
Advantages of State-Controlled Curricular Systems	18	(1)
Disadvantages of State-Controlled Curricular Systems	19	(4)
England and Wales	23	(1)
Discussion Questions	24	(1)
Further Reading	24	(2)
Cultural Diversity and State Knowledge	26	(16)
A Distinction: National Diversity and Urban Diversity	26	(1)
National Diversity in Western Europe	27	(4)
National Diversity in Eastern Europe	31	(2)
Theorizing Difference	33	(2)
Education and National Diversity: Introducing the Issues	35	(2)
Urban Diversity in Western and Eastern Europe	37	(2)
Diversity and Knowledge: Introducing the Issues	39	(2)
Discussion Questions	41	(1)
Further Reading	41	(1)
The Creation and Re-Creation of Tradition in Schools and Universities	42	(18)
Traditional Elements in the Curriculum	42	(1)
Religion	43	(3)
The Family and the Body	46	(1)
Social Control and the Construction of Identity	47	(3)
Tradition, Culture and Civilization as We Know it	50	(2)
Modernity and Postmodernity: Their Impact on Curricular Systems	52	(4)
The Creation and Re-Creation of Tradition	56	(2)
Discussion Questions	58	(1)
Further Reading	58	(2)
The Knowledge Economy	60	(14)
New Skills in the Workplace	60	(2)
Knowledge as a Trading Commodity	62	(2)
Educational Institutions in the Knowledge Economy: Universities	64	(2)
Education and the Knowledge Economy: Schools	66	(6)
Discussion Questions	72	(1)
Further Reading	73	(1)
Modernist Knowledge and Prejudice: Special Educational Needs	74	(14)
Introduction	74	(1)
Knowledge Systems: Science and Normality	74	(6)
Knowledge Protocols: Stratification and Normality	80	(6)
Discussion Questions	86	(1)
Further Reading	87	(1)
Knowledge and Warfare	88	(15)
Introduction	88	(1)
Foreign and First Language Policies	89	(3)
History and Cultural Studies	92	(2)
Religious Education	94	(3)
Scientific Research and Development Programmes	97	(2)
Military Training	99	(1)
Training in Conformity	100	(2)
Discussion Questions	102	(1)
Further Reading	102	(1)
State Knowledge and Identity	103	(13)
Marxism, Postmodernism and Educational Policy Formulation	103	(4)
Postmodernism and Curriculum Structure	107	(2)
State-Enforced Knowledge	109	(2)
Language, Curricula and Identity	111	(3)
Discussion Questions	114	(1)
Further Reading	115	(1)
References	116	(8)
Index	124