Overview
- Addresses important topics often disregarded in comparative studies of education: educational contents, curriculum, and school-based knowledge
- Brings together leading scholars in the field
- Includes global, regional and historical perspectives
Part of the book series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education (CERC, volume 18)
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School curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined one anchored in individual rights and collective progress. Both worlds—the real and the imagined—increasingly reflect influential trans-national forces.
In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests. Some authors emphasize a convergence to standardized global curricular structures and discourses. Others suggest that changes regarding the intended contents of primary and secondary school curricula reveal regional or trans-cultural influences. Overall, these comparative and historical studies demonstrate that the dynamics of curriculum-making and curricular reform are increasingly forged within wider regional, cross-regional and global contexts.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Changing Ideological Bases of the School Curriculum
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Curricular Contents and Practices in Primary and Secondary Education
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The Dynamics of Curriculum-Making and Curricular Reform
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School Curricula in Perspective: Reflections on the Past, and Directions for the Future
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Book Subtitle: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education
Editors: Aaron Benavot, Cecilia Braslavsky, Nhung Truong
Series Title: CERC Studies in Comparative Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5736-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5735-9Published: 28 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5736-6Published: 20 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1573-6040
Series E-ISSN: 2543-022X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 306
Topics: Curriculum Studies, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology, general