Curriculum: Construction and Critique

by Ross; ALISTAIR

• ISBN13: 9780750707978
• ISBN10: 0750707976
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-26
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Although curriculum is central to the schooling process, debates about it are rarely well informed. Over the past ten years there has been a dearth of books that have informed the debate by examining curriculum in a broader context, beyond the National Curriculum. Ross, in this refreshing re-examination of the area, opens up a more general debate on how the curriculum is shaped and the compromises made between different ideologies of the nature and purpose of education.

Author Biography

Alistair Ross is Professor of Education at the University of North London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Series Editors' Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Curriculum Gardening	1	(7)
The Baroque Curriculum	3	(1)
The Naturally Landscaped Curriculum	4	(1)
The Dig-for-Victory Curriculum	5	(1)
The Cottage Curriculum	6	(2)
What is the Curriculum?	8	(10)
Curriculum and the Reproduction of Culture	9	(2)
Curriculum and Assessment	11	(3)
Global Trends in School Curricula	14	(4)
Conflict in the Curriculum: Growth and Diversity, 1860-1976	18	(15)
Codification and Control: 1860-1926	18	(4)
Diverse Approaches and the Individual Child: 1926-64	22	(6)
The Polarization of Innovation and Tradition: 1960-76	28	(5)
Turmoil in the Curriculum: 1976-1986	33	(29)
The Great Debate: The `Yellow Book' and Education in Schools	33	(3)
A Common Curriculum: Curriculum 11-16	36	(2)
DES and HMI Tension: A Framework for the School Curriculum and A View of the Curriculum	38	(5)
The Response from the DES: The School Curriculum	43	(2)
The Schools Curriculum Development Council, Teaching Quality and Better Schools	45	(8)
The New Right and Curriculum Policy	53	(6)
Final Steps to the National Curriculum	59	(3)
The Imposed Curriculum: 1986-1998	62	(19)
The National Curriculum 5-16: A Consultation Document	62	(4)
Mathematics and English	66	(5)
History	71	(3)
The Process of Revision	74	(2)
The Profession Strikes Back?	76	(5)
Curriculum and Reproduction	81	(16)
Education as an Agent for Social Transformation	82	(1)
The Reproduction of Social Inequality	83	(2)
The Hidden Curriculum and the Needs of Capitalist Production: Stan Bowles and Herb Gintis	85	(3)
Cultural Capital and its Reproduction: The Work of Pierre Bourdieu	88	(4)
Codes of Class and Language: Basil Bernstein's Contribution	92	(5)
Content-driven Curricula	97	(18)
Boundaries and Frames	98	(3)
The Quadrivium and the Trivium	101	(3)
Philosophical Rationales	104	(1)
The Life-cycle of a Subject: Science and Biology	105	(5)
Hierarchies of Subjects	110	(2)
Curriculum Status and Pupil Status	112	(3)
Objectives-driven Curricula	115	(20)
Demands for Relevance and Utility	118	(2)
Objectives-driven Considerations in the Formation of School Subjects	120	(3)
The `New Vocationalism'	123	(5)
Demands for Utility and Teachers' Preoccupation with Progressivism	128	(7)
Process-driven Curricula	135	(15)
Naturalism and the Curriculum	135	(3)
Child-centred Education in the English Primary School	138	(3)
The Progressive Tradition in English Secondary Education	141	(3)
Dimensions of Curriculum Analysis	144	(4)
Nation-building and Curriculum	148	(2)
Forging the Curriculum: Nationalism, Identity and the English Curriculum	150	(11)
National Identity in the Early Twenty-first Century	150	(3)
Representations of the National Culture	153	(2)
The Curriculum as a Narration of the Nation	155	(1)
Individualism, Equality and National Identity	156	(2)
Other Possible Identities	158/	(3)
References	161	(16)
Index	177