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9780750707268

Subject Knowledge: Readings For The Study Of School Subjects

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750707268

  • ISBN10:

    0750707267

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-10-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book fills a gap in the literature, accounting for the growth of interest since the 1960s, from sociologists and others, in school subjects. Basing analysis on Goodson's own work in the UK and North America, the author examines afresh the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects. This is a companion volume and source book for students and teachers on courses using Goodson and MarshStudying School Subjects: A Guide

Table of Contents

Preface vi(1)
Acknowledgments vi
1 Introduction: Studying Subject Knowledge
1(12)
2 The Need for Curriculum History
13(7)
3 Becoming a School Subject
20(18)
4 The Micro Politics of Curriculum Change: European Studies
38(13)
5 On Explaining Curriculum Change: H. B. Beal, Organisational Categories and the Rhetoric of Justification
51(16)
C. Anstead
6 Subject Status and Curriculum Change: Local Commercial Education, 1920-40
67(17)
Christopher Anstead
7 Subjects and the Everyday Life of Schooling
84(21)
Christopher Anstead
8 Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers
105(17)
J. Marshall Mangan
9 Computer Studies as Symbolic and Ideological Action: The Genealogy of the ICON
122(15)
J. Marshall Mangan
10 On Curriculum Form: Notes Toward a Theory of Curriculum
137(13)
11 `Nations at Risk' and `National Curriculum': Ideology and Identity
150(15)
Index of Names 165(2)
Subject Index 167

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