First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage
of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920. It demonstrates that these …

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in
curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not …

Until the 1960s, maths was studied as an academic subject in a desire to have more
mathematicians. The current trend, however, has moved away from viewing maths as a …

Although curriculum is central to the schooling process, debates about it are rarely well
informed. Over the past ten years there has been a dearth of books that have informed the …

The rise of a radical 'new'sociology of education during the early 1970s focused attention on
the nature of school knowledge. Although this new approach was set to revolutionize the …

This book reports a study which examined the concrete experiences of male and female
university students in the United Kingdom, and the meanings students attach to them. It …

What happens in the school curriculum is fundamental to people's lives. Schools are meant
to educate the next generation and to do so through school subjects. But subjects and the …

This paper examines curriculum trends and perspectives in the light of the modernist–
postmodernist debate. It argues that the new ideological and institutional frameworks of our …

As a music teacher I often wondered if my thoughts about my own subject, and its perceived
isolation, were shared by other teachers as they considered their subjects. As head of …

Qu'en est-il de l'interdisciplinarité en éducation? S'il est d'usage courant de retrouver
l'expression «interdisciplinarité pédagogique» dans la documentation scientifique (Best …