Subject knowledge : readings for the study of school subjects / Ivor F. Goodson with Christopher J. Anstead and J. Marshall Mangan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodson, Ivor.

Contributor:

Anstead, Christopher J.

Mangan, John Marshall, 1947-

Series:

Falmer Press teachers' library series.

Falmer Press teacher's library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Curricula--History.

Education.

Education--Curricula--Great Britain--History.

Curriculum change--Social aspects--History.

Curriculum change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960's. Goodson's analysis of his own work examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling and teaching through the study of school subjects.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Studying Subject Knowledge; The Need for Curriculum History; Becoming a School Subject; The Micro Politics of Curriculum Change: European Studies; On Explaining Curriculum Change: H. B. Beal, Organizational Categories and the Rhetoric of Justification (with; Subject Status and Curriculum Change: Local Commercial Education, 1920 40 (with; Subjects and the Everyday Life of Schooling (with; Subject Cultures and the Introduction of Classroom Computers (with; Computer Studies as Symbolic and Ideological Action: The Genealogy of the ICON (with...

On Curriculum Form: Notes Toward a Theory of Curriculum 'Nations at Risk' and 'National Curriculum': Ideology and Identity; Index of Names; Subject Index;

Notes:

"A companion volume to the guidebook Studying school subjects"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-71205-0

1-135-71206-9

1-280-54382-5

9786610543823

0-203-48666-8

0-203-23456-1

9780203486665

OCLC:

226376498