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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824232903321

Autore

Goodson Ivor

Titolo

School subjects and curriculum change [[electronic resource] /] / Ivor Goodson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Falmer Press, 1993

ISBN

1-135-72241-2

1-280-40109-5

0-203-08322-9

Edizione

[New rev. and extended ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Studies in curriculum history ; ; 6

Disciplina

375/.001

Soggetti

Curriculum planning - Great Britain - History

Education, Secondary - Curricula - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; School Subjects and Curriculum Change; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Anniversary Edition; Foreword to the Third Edition; Family Legacies; Introduction to the Second Edition; Part One: Becoming an Academic Subject: Case Studies in the Social History of the School Curriculum; 1. Introduction; 2. The Growth of the English Education System: Changing Patterns of Curricula and Examinations; 3. Academic 'Subjects' and Curriculum Change; Part Two: School Subjects: Patterns of Internal Evolution; 4. Biology: Aspects of Subject History; 5. Geography: Aspects of Subject History

6. Rural Studies: Aspects of Subject History Part Three: Relationship Between Subjects: The Territorial Nature of Subject Conflict; 7. 'Climates of Opinion' with Respect to Education and the Environment, 1960-1975; 8. Redefining Rural Studies: The Genesis of Environmental Studies; 9. Construction of an 'A' Level Syllabus; 10. The Defence of Geography and Biology; 11. The Negotiation of Environmental Studies; Part Four: Conclusions; 12. Conclusions, Complexities and Conjectures; Appendices; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1960's and early 1970's. 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 continued...