School Subjects and Curriculum Change

by Goodson; Ivor F

• ISBN13: 9780750700986
• ISBN10: 075070098X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Preface to the Anniversary Edition	p. vi
Foreword to the Third Edition	p. viii
Family Legacies	p. xxiii
Introduction: To the Second Edition	p. xxv
Becoming an Academic Subject: Case Studies in the Social History of the School Curriculum	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The Growth of the English Education System: Changing Patterns of Curricula and Examinations	p. 13
Academic 'subjects' and Curriculum Change	p. 24
Notes	p. 37
School Subjects: Patterns of Internal Evolution	p. 39
Biology: Aspects of Subject History	p. 41
Geography: Aspects of Subject History	p. 57
Rural Studies: Aspects of Subject History	p. 84
Relationships between Subjects: The Territorial Nature of Subject Conflict	p. 103
'Climates of Opinion' with Respect to Education and the Environment, 1960-1975	p. 105
Notes	p. 114
Redefining Rural Studies: The Genesis of Environmental Studies	p. 116
Construction of an 'A' Level Syllabus	p. 131
The Defence of Geography and Biology	p. 145
The Negotiation of Environmental Studies	p. 166
Conclusions	p. 183
Conclusions, Complexities and Conjectures	p. 184
Appendices	p. 199
Index	p. 222
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