Changing school subjects : power, gender, and curriculum / Carrie Paechter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paechter, Carrie F.

Series:

Changing education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curriculum change--Great Britain.

Curriculum change.

Feminism and education.

Curriculum planning--Social aspects.

Curriculum planning.

Great Britain.

Curriculum planning--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Feminism and education--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Changing School Subjects examines the effects of curriculum change on teachers and students. It focuses on the gendered nature of the curriculum, and analyzes how power, gender and knowledge intersect to determine how school knowledge is constructed, what knowledge is made available to which students, who supplies the knowledge, and how.

Contents:

Part 1 Gender, power/knowledge and curriculum change

1 Introduction: studying curriculum change 3

2 Power, gender and curriculum 14

3 Gender, power and school subjects 32

Part 2 Gendered marginality

4 Life in a marginal subject 49

5 Negotiating a new school subject: the case of design and technology 63

6 Physical education, sport and the body 91

Part 3 Students, subjects and examinations

7 Students and subjects: power/knowledge and integrated curricula 111

8 Discipline as examination/examination as discipline: the effects of curriculum codification on teachers, students and subjects 130.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-178) and index.

ISBN:

0335201202

0335201199

OCLC:

43751664