Hong Kong is a fascinating place for the study of curriculum. Its schooling system operates at an interface influenced by the legacies of a Chinese tradition and from British colonialism and was developed at a time when, around the world, the state was taking more responsibility for the education of
Schooling, society and curriculum
β Scribed by Alex Moore
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 225
- Series
- Foundations and futures of education
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This is a reassessment and realignment of Curriculum Studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of 11 chapters, this book leads and fosters critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to the wider society.
β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Pt. I. Issues and contexts --
1. Educational, knowledge and the role of the state : the 'nationalization' of educational knowledge? / Michael F. D. Young --
2. Six curriculum discourses : contestation and edification / David Scott --
3. The Puritan origins of the 1988 school curriculum in England / John White --
4. The instrumentalization of the expressive in education / David Hartley --
Pt. II. Values and learners --
5. Gender, power and curriculum : an inevitable interconnection / Carrie Paechter --
6. Curriculum as culture : entitlement, bias and the Bourdieusean arbitrary / Alex Moore --
7. New directions in citizenship education : re-conceptualizing the curriculum in the context of globalization / Audrey Osler
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