Subject Knowledge: Readings For The Study Of School Subjects

by Goodson; Ivor F.

• ISBN13: 9780750707275
• ISBN10: 0750707275
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

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	p. vi
Introduction: Studying Subject Knowledge	p. 1
The Need for Curriculum History	p. 13
Becoming a School Subject	p. 20
The Micro Politics of Curriculum Change: European Studies	p. 38
References	p. 50
On Explaining Curriculum Change: H.B. Beal, Organizational Categories and the Rhetoric of Justification	p. 51
Notes	p. 63
	p. 65
	p. 66
Subject Status and Curriculum Change: Local Commercial Education, 1920-1940	p. 67
References	p. 83
Subjects and the Everyday Life of Schooling	p. 84
Notes	p. 102
Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers	p. 105
Computer Studies as Symbolic and Ideological Action: The Genealogy of the Icon	p. 122
On Curriculum Form: Notes toward a Theory of Curriculum	p. 137
Notes	p. 149
'Nations at Risk' and 'National Curriculum': Ideology and Identity	p. 150
Index of Names	p. 165
Subject Index	p. 167
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