The primary curriculum : learning from international perspectives / edited by Janet Moyles and Linda Hargreaves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moyles, Janet R.

Hargreaves, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Elementary--Curricula--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Elementary.

Curriculum planning--Cross-cultural studies.

Curriculum planning.

Curriculum change--Cross-cultural studies.

Curriculum change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands, questions which primary teachers everywhere face on a daily basis, such as: * how does society's view of children and childhood affect teaching and learning? * how do the dictates of the education system, including a national curriculum, shape teaching practice? * how do the conventions of classroom practice fit with teachers' own beliefs and values? The first part of the book offers a basic framework for thinking about primary curricula from the perspectives

Contents:

Cover; The Primary Curriculum; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I - Primary Curricula: Origins and Influences; 1. Historical and Philosophical Influences on the Primary Curriculum; 2. The Concept of a Developmental Curriculum; 3. The Primary National Curriculum in England: a Sociological Perspective; 4. Changing Primary/elementary School Curricula: an Analysis of the English Experience 1862-2012; 5. Making a Curriculum: Some Principles of Curriculum Building

Part II - Primary Curricula:internationalcontexts AndperspectivesIntroduction; 6. Primary Education for the Rural Black Southafrican Child; 7. Primary Curriculum: Two Perspectives from Japan; 8. Relationships and Tensions in the Primary Curriculumof the United States; 9. Primary Education: an Australian Perspective; 10.Primary Schooling in Hong Kong; 11.Curricula Across Cultures: Contexts and Connections; Endpiece; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-72621-X

1-899917-55-1

1-134-72622-8

1-280-33716-8

0-203-05802-X

9780203058022

OCLC:

437078270