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9780750705899

Studying School Subjects: A Guide

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750705899

  • ISBN10:

    0750705892

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1996-12-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Studying School Subjectsp. 1
School Subjects: The Context of Cultural Inventionsp. 7
Subjects and Schooling: Four School Case Studiesp. 21
Subject 'Traditions' and Interest Groupsp. 33
Subject Departmentsp. 54
Subject Histories: Sciencep. 67
Subject Histories: Mathematicsp. 80
Subject Histories: Englishp. 99
School Subjects: Patterns of Changep. 131
School Subjects: Patterns of Stabilityp. 148
Bibliographyp. 168
Indexp. 183
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